Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An industrial unit of production equal to the work one person can produce in a day.
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- noun One person's working time for a day, or the equivalent, used as a measure of how much
work orlabor is required or consumed to perform sometask .
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Examples
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First, they determine the productivity of the farming system, whether measured in terms of land efficiency (output per hectare) or labor efficiency (output per man-day).
Farms in historical materialism Daniel Little 2009
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First, they determine the productivity of the farming system, whether measured in terms of land efficiency (output per hectare) or labor efficiency (output per man-day).
Archive 2009-05-01 Daniel Little 2009
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At 2 percent the surplus would be increased to 53 man-days per man-day.
Energy and Society~ Chapter 5~ Steam~ Key to the Industrial Revolution 2009
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From the point of view of the total energy generated, if not of the surplus per man-day, the clipper ships were paramount.
Energy and Society~ Chapter 3~ Inorganic Energy Sources~ Wind and Water 2009
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The surplus of mechanical energy gained would thus be 26 horsepower-hours, or the equivalent of 26 man-days per man-day.
Energy and Society~ Chapter 5~ Steam~ Key to the Industrial Revolution 2009
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It's to provide security services for US diplomats, officials and others once assigned to the military at around six times the cost and can be up to $1200 per man-day.
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It's to provide security services for US diplomats, officials and others once assigned to the military at around six times the cost and can be up to $1200 per man-day.
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Here is an idea, for every man-day spent in a classroom actually teaching or helping teachers teach students, business should be able to make a tax deduction of say 3-4 man hours of time.
Archive 2006-04-01 Matt Johnston 2006
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The avg school day is from 8:30-3:00, which works out to 32.5 hrs a week - almost a full man-day short of a 40 hr week.
When the gifts for teacher include a condo. Ann Althouse 2006
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Bed brokers earn a commission of $2.50 to $5.50 per man-day, depending on how tight the market for prison cells is at the time.
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