man-hour in English

noun
1
an hour regarded in terms of the amount of work that can be done by one person within this period.
We put in at least 35 man-hours per every flight hour.

Use "man-hour" in a sentence

Below are sample sentences containing the word "man-hour" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "man-hour", or refer to the context using the word "man-hour" in the English Dictionary.

1. Firms can boost output per man - hour by investing more and equipping workers with better machinery.

2. Competitiveness is really what it costs you per man-hour to get you what you want

3. Benchwork construction is strictly custom and is based on the cost of materials plus a competetive per man hour fee for labor