The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
man hour \man hour\, man-hour \man-hour\n. The quantity of work which one person can perform in one hour; -- often an estimate made for the purpose of deciding whether to undertake a project, and sometimes used in accounting; as, it will take a hundred man-hours to write the program. [PJC]WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
man hour n 1: a time unit used in industry for measuring work [syn: man hour, person hour]