单词 | woman-hour |
释义 | > as lemmaswoman-hour woman-hour n. an hour regarded in terms of the amount of work that can be done by a woman in this period.Chiefly used as a conscious and sometimes humorous alternative to man-hour. ΘΠ society > occupation and work > work > amounts of work > [noun] > amount per person per time unit hour1900 man-hour1915 woman-hour1915 man-shift1930 work rate1957 1915 Biennial Rep. Industr. Welfare Comm. Calif. 247 For these canneries the preparing records (i.e. cutting, pitting and peeling) for over 115,000 woman hours were secured. 1979 M. McCarthy Cannibals & Missionaries i. 4 I'm doing a serious study of the woman-hours expended in this family. 2005 Birmingham Post (Nexis) 18 May 10 I have spent far too many womanhours considering the vexed question of whether or not to wax those leg hairs away. < as lemmas |
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