Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. For or during less than the customary or standard time: a part-time job.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Occupying less than the entire time appropriate to an activity. Opposed to
full-time . - adj. Employed for less than the full time usually expended at a task or occupation. Opposed to
full-time . Commonly, thirty-five hours per week or more is considered full-time, and less than 30 ispart-time work. - adv. For less than the usual full time appropriate to an activity; on a part-time basis. Opposed to
full-time . - n. A working schedule occupying less than full time, i.e. less than 35 hours per week.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. involving less than the standard or customary time for an activity
- adv. for less than the standard number of hours
- adj. involving less than the standard or customary time for an activity
Examples
“First he called his part-time assistant in New York City, only to find out that the prop and scenery truck was parked at a garage on Long Island where it would be safe for the weekend.”
“Cuts were expressed as fractions where local authorities are reducing hours or referring to part-time posts.”
The Guardian: Deaf children's services cut at one in five councils in England
“Becourtney says many employers call part-time workers independent contractors.”
“For someone like RuPaul, who engages in a form of transgender expression part-time exclusively as a moneymaking enterprise, to try to tell people who live and work 24/7 in a gender role they were not assigned at birth, people who are legally denied the right to work, rent a home, or even just to have a drink in a local bar free of discrimination in 34 states, what they should or shouldn't find offensive is the very height of arrogance.”
“I’m kind of a lone wolf, except for Cherie, and she’s what you might call a part-time friend.”
“In the words of my late friend Robert Byrd, politicians have become full-time fund-raisers and part-time officeholders.”
“Keeping up with both worship and parish life requires the full-time attention of a rector, a vicar, three associate rectors, one assistant rector, and three lay associates, as well as an additional thirty-three full-time and eleven part-time staff members.”
“Measures of full-time work, part-time work, and labor force participation all tell broadly the same story.”
“The activities of the Ministry Center alone require the work of one hundred full-time employees, 150 part-time employees, and four thousand volunteer hours per month.”
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EN - compound adjectives
Adjectively used nominal phrases with a "-" inside.
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