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man-month

noun

Etymology

Compound of man + month, although, as with any such unit of measure (e.g., pack-years, newton metres), the mathematical relationship of multiplication is simultaneously involved: X men working during Y months = X × Y = Z man-months.

  1. inherited from *mḗh₁n̥s✻ — “moon, month”
  2. inherited from *mēnōþs✻ — “month”
  3. inherited from *mānōþ✻
  4. inherited from mōnaþ
  5. inherited from moneth
  6. compounded as man-month — “man + month”

Definitions

  1. One person's working time for a month, or the equivalent, used as a measure of how much…

    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
    • Meronyms: man-hour, person-hour < man day, person-day

The neighborhood

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