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man-hour

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man-hour
a unit for measuring work in industry, equal to the work done by one man in one hour

man-hour [′man‚au̇r]
(industrial engineering)
A unit of measure representing one person working for one hour.


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Pretty startling, since efficiency leader Toyota continues to maintain a nearly 10 man-hour advantage over Chrysler and presses on with new efficiency advancements at its own plants throughout the globe.
If the number of man-hours worked exceeded the target figure, the basic fee was reduced by 30 cents per man-hour worked in excess.
When workers in a prosperous country receive twice the wage rate as workers in a poorer country and produce three times the output per man-hour, then it is the high-wage country which has the lower labor costs.
 
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