full time
the number of hours in a period, as a day, week, or month, considered customary for pursuing an activity, especially working at a job: The factory now operates on full time.Abbreviations: FT, F/T: Compare part time.
Origin of full time
1Words Nearby full time
Other definitions for full-time (2 of 2)
working or operating the customary or requisite number of hours in each day, week, or month: a full-time housekeeper;full-time production.
being indefinitely employed by one company for the customary or requisite number of hours: Only full-time employees are eligible for healthcare.: Compare freelance (def. 1).
on a full-time basis; on a schedule corresponding to the customary number of working or operational hours.
Origin of full-time
2- Compare part-time.
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How to use full time in a sentence
It’s a habit she established when she worked full time outside the home.
5 simple ways to get your home in order, from ‘Clean Mama’ Becky Rapinchuk | Lindsey Roberts | February 4, 2021 | Washington PostA full time return to the office and work once the coronavirus crisis has subsided is unlikely, according to the findings of a new global study.
Coronavirus pandemic has more employers experimenting with four-day work week | jim cooper | February 1, 2021 | DigidayChief among them is a revised formula that gives more consideration to an institution’s total number of students, instead of focusing on those attending full time.
Colleges, students will have easier access to second round of stimulus funds, but bureaucracy remains | Danielle Douglas-Gabriel | January 15, 2021 | Washington PostThe counselors, who work full time and earn $50,000 to $65,000 a year, including benefits, stop by to check in with students stocking the dairy case at Walmart or working a shift at a Sonic Drive-In.
How to raise rural enrollment in higher education? Go local. | Laura Pappano | December 4, 2020 | Washington PostIn 2018, she was hired full time by the Clayton News to cover crime and safety.
Robin Kemp lost her news job in Clayton County, Ga. — but she kept reporting the news. It paid off on election week. | Reis Thebault | November 10, 2020 | Washington Post
Releasing two, fully produced music videos per month is way more than a full time job.
But Jeff, who began his foray into pot gastronomy as a hobby, is rapidly turning it into a full-time pot-repreneurial business.
Three of the six members of the group work on the channel full time, but Sep has a full time job as a mechanical engineer.
She certainly does not feel the need for a full time dressmaker like Angela Kelly.
A graduate of Wake Forest University, she taught high-school English for six years before becoming a full-time mom and writer.
Book Bag: Reading Your Way Out Of Grief | Anna Whiston-Donaldson | October 16, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThere ain't enough to keep him on full time, but we send for him whenever we need him.
He may have been in and out of there off and on but he didn't spend full time there that long.
Warren Commission (11 of 26): Hearings Vol. XI (of 15) | The President's Commission on the Assassination of President KennedyHe has had the benefit of full time, and good counsel, and of the Commonwealth's process, to bring in his witnesses.
Select Speeches of Daniel Webster | Daniel WebsterWe went on slowly, as such a match must, occasionally pausing to cool our barrels, and taking full time with the loading.
The Way of a Man | Emerson HoughBut now that my friends were interesting themselves, I thought it full time that I should be looking after affairs myself.
My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands | George Francis Train
British Dictionary definitions for full time (1 of 2)
the end of a football or other match: Compare half-time
British Dictionary definitions for full-time (2 of 2)
for the entire time appropriate to an activity: a full-time job; a full-time student
on a full-time basis: he works full time
- Compare part-time
Derived forms of full-time
- full-timer, noun
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