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xx 万人日分

English translation: Number of man-days

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Japanese term or phrase:xx 万人日分
English translation:Number of man-days
Entered by: V N Ganesh

05:21 Jan 25, 2008
Japanese to English translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - Government / Politics
Japanese term or phrase: xx 万人日分
This is repeated in a table with varying figures. (It involves persons with disabilities receiving job assistance for continued employment, etc.)

Your help is appreciated.
Joyce A
Thailand
Local time: 17:14
Number of man-hours/days
Explanation:
The advantage of the man-hour concept is that it can be used to estimate the impact of staff changes on the amount of time required for a task. This is done by dividing the number of man-hours by the number of workers available. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_hour - 23k -
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V N Ganesh
Local time: 15:44
Grading comment
I'd heard of man-hours but this is the first I'd come across man days. Thank you Ganesh!
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Summary of answers provided
3XX million jobs
Timothy Miller
1 +1Number of man-hours/days
V N Ganesh


  

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43 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
XX million jobs


Explanation:
Looking through the referenced essay, it appears that this means something like "xx million jobs"...as in jobs created for XX million people. But I believe in English this would genereally be written as simply "xx million jobs", as in "created 23 million jobs in the area of manufacture in 20 years"...or something like that.

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Note added at 1 hr (2008-01-25 07:12:06 GMT)
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I realized that this doesn't necessarily have to mean "million"...so please substitute that with the correct number in your case. Sorry!


    Reference: http://www.civil.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/misc/eeprob/essay2004.pdf
Timothy Miller
Local time: 19:14
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 1/5Answerer confidence 1/5 peer agreement (net): +1
Number of man-hours/days


Explanation:
The advantage of the man-hour concept is that it can be used to estimate the impact of staff changes on the amount of time required for a task. This is done by dividing the number of man-hours by the number of workers available. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_hour - 23k -

V N Ganesh
Local time: 15:44
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 20
Grading comment
I'd heard of man-hours but this is the first I'd come across man days. Thank you Ganesh!

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