man-month
短语人月
词形变化
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释义与例句
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1.
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.
人月
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.
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词源
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.
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