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What is a man-hour?

What is a man-hour? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The amount of work that can be done by one person in an hour.
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Indeed, the 'annual cost rate of a man-hour derived from HSY's official books', which is used by Greece, is an inappropriate approximation of the hourly cost of a worker working for a subcontractor.
Generally speaking, higher productivity — that is, higher output per man-hour — is a good thing.
It was a significant man-hour investment to get to that stage.
That is to say that the dividend shall progressively displace the wage and salary, as productive capacity increases per man-hour.
Retail is detail: the business operates on low margins and every man-hour has to be used in an optimal way.
The man-hour plan requires the hours worked to be recorded and footed in addition to the labor cost.

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