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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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- Holonyms: man-year, person-year
- Meronyms: man-hour, person-hour < man day, person-day
- In project management, there is always another dimbulb who will ask whether the relationship of man-months to calendar months is such that the schedule can be cut in half by doubling the headcount. The standard joke for disabusing this nonsense involves an expedited pregnancy lasting four and a half months instead of nine.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: person-month
Antonyms: none provided
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.
Across languages
Translations
5 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Chinese Mandarin:
人月
(rényuè)
— amount of work
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Finnish:
henkilötyökuukausi
— amount of work
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French:
mois-homme
— amount of work
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Greek:
ανθρωπομήνας
(anthropomínas)
— amount of work
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Japanese:
人月
(ningetsu)
— amount of work
