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One person's working time for a day, 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: person-month, man-month < person-year, man-year
- Meronyms: person-hour, man-hour
- They estimated that it would take at least four people working a total of at least 80 person-days to build the foundation.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: man-day
Antonyms: none provided
Compound of person + day, although, as with any such unit of measure (e.g., ton-miles, newton metres), the mathematical relationship of multiplication is simultaneously involved: X persons working during Y days = X × Y = Z person-days.
Across languages
Translations
9 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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French:
jour-personne
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French:
jour-homme
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French:
homme-jour
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Greek:
ανθρωποημέρα
(anthropoïméra)
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Japanese:
人日
(nin'nichi)
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Polish:
osobodzień
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Polish:
dniówka
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Polish:
roboczodniówka
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Spanish:
día-hombre
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