man-hour

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Chronologyman-hourˈman-hour noun [countable] TMCWORK/DO WORKthe amount of work done by one person in one hour The main structure takes only about 40 man-hours to erect.Examples from the Corpusman-hour• It took 18,000 man-hours to repair a complete Whitley.• They estimate it will take them 20,000 man-hours to get the aircraft flying and ready for the round-the-world trip.• In the late 1960's, a Volkswagen car took 19 man-hours to build, thanks largely to semi-automatic aids.• Last year, the Police Department spent about 70 man-hours responding to alarm calls.• The cost is more than made up for by the fact that virtually no man-hours are lost through strike action.• By now, many hundreds of man-hours had been put into the Packard Merlin and much had still to be done.• Hundreds of man-hours had gone into its compilation - all for nothing.• Surrounding them in vaulted stone and glass, wood and gorgeous cloth, were millions of man-hours of work.From Longman Business Dictionaryman-hourˈman-hour noun [countable]COMMERCEMANUFACTURING the amount of work done by one person in one hourGeneral Motors budgets for 30.3 man-hours to build a car.

单词	man-hour
释义	man-hour From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Chronologyman-hourˈman-hour noun [countable] TMCWORK/DO WORKthe amount of work done by one person in one hour The main structure takes only about 40 man-hours to erect.Examples from the Corpusman-hour• It took 18,000 man-hours to repair a complete Whitley.• They estimate it will take them 20,000 man-hours to get the aircraft flying and ready for the round-the-world trip.• In the late 1960's, a Volkswagen car took 19 man-hours to build, thanks largely to semi-automatic aids.• Last year, the Police Department spent about 70 man-hours responding to alarm calls.• The cost is more than made up for by the fact that virtually no man-hours are lost through strike action.• By now, many hundreds of man-hours had been put into the Packard Merlin and much had still to be done.• Hundreds of man-hours had gone into its compilation - all for nothing.• Surrounding them in vaulted stone and glass, wood and gorgeous cloth, were millions of man-hours of work.From Longman Business Dictionaryman-hourˈman-hour noun [countable]COMMERCEMANUFACTURING the amount of work done by one person in one hourGeneral Motors budgets for 30.3 man-hours to build a car.
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