man-month
Meaning
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.
Synonyms
person-month
Translations
Mannmonat
mois-homme
luna
luna
شهر البشرEtymology
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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