man hour

CIDE DICTIONARY

man hour, n. 

 The quantity of work which one person can perform in one hour; -- often an estimate made for the purpose of deciding whether to undertake a project, and sometimes used in accounting; as, it will take a hundred man-hours to write the program.  [PJC]

THESAURUS

man hour

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