Man-hour

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  man hour \man hour\, man-hour \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.


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