man-month

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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

词形变化

man-months plural

词源

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.
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