Word.ws English Dictionary

man-months

man-months is the plural of man-month.

Meaning of man-month

Noun

man-month (plural man-months)

  1. One person's working time for a month, or the equivalent, used as a measure of how much work or labor is required or consumed to perform some task.
    • Holonyms: man-year, person-year
    Synonyms:
    person-month

Questions about man-months

What is man-months the plural of?
Man-months is the plural of man-month.

Words near man-months in the dictionary

  1. man-milk
  2. man-minute
  3. man-minutes
  4. man-mode
  5. man-month
  6. man-months
  7. man-mountain
  8. man-mountains
  9. man-o'-war
  10. man-o'-war suit
  11. man-o'-war suits

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: man-months (page history and authors); man-month (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “man-months.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/man-months. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.