man hour

1. 1.

   a time unit used in industry for measuring work

   Synonymsperson hour

   Broaderhour

   Part ofworkday

Questions about man hour

What does man hour mean?

man hour means "a time unit used in industry for measuring work".

What is another word for man hour?

Close synonyms include person hour. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is man hour a common word?

man hour is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.