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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
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
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.
Experience seems to indicate that developing such a TeX interface for a new output device takes on the order of one man-month.
Use man-month when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Man-month means 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..
Common synonyms include person-month.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Holonyms: man-year, person-year
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