adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a full-time worker
▪ The bureau has only two full-time workers.
a full-time/part-time course
▪ There are also part-time courses for mature students.
a full-time/part-time employee
▪ We now have 110 full-time employees.
a full-time/part-time post
▪ a part-time post as a university lecturer
full-time education (=spending every weekday in a school or college)
▪ Children must stay in full-time education until the age of 16.
full-time work
▪ Are you available for full-time work?
full-time/part-time employment
▪ Mike is in full-time employment, but his wife is not working.
full-time/part-time staff
▪ The school has over 100 full-time staff.
part-time/full-time
▪ He had a part-time job at the pet shop.
work part-time/full-time
▪ I work part-time in a library.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
▪ Sir Adrian utterly rejects the definition of work as full-time employment.
▪ The few adults who were allowed to accompany the children had too many demands on them to act as full-time baby minders.
▪ When teenage children are involved, as full-time or part-time members of the new family, there is considerable added pressure.
■ NOUN
basis
▪ Their role will be to provide specialist expertise in this area for the profession on a full-time basis.
▪ When I started my consultancy I was still employed on a full-time basis.
▪ The course is offered on a full-time basis.
▪ Some companies employ people to do this on a full-time basis.
▪ Farming, though still relatively profitable, employs few families on a full-time basis.
course
▪ Later this month it will be a permanent feature of full-time courses at the hotel school.
▪ In addition there are 44 colleges, 11 of which offer full-time courses of at least three years.
▪ Of the former, 10.1 percent were on full-time courses and 11.4 on part-time day release.
▪ These are one-year full-time courses which are normally designed for sixteen-year-olds.
▪ In all, the two full-time courses in the five centres catered for just over 1,300 students in 1980.
▪ Isn't it just possible that students are missing out by being held back on full-time courses for so long?
▪ It provides a full-time course of study combining movement and music with physiotherapy.
education
▪ They are designed to give those not wishing to continue full-time education the chance to gain work experience, training and education.
▪ The numbers of students in full-time education in the West had been dropping since the 1970s, and this trend continued.
▪ Sixty percent of 16 year-olds stay on in full-time education, up from only 40 percent in 1979.
▪ What jobs have I had since leaving full-time education?
▪ Haycocks I, on training of full-time education teachers was the most important report prepared by the Committee.
▪ Students in full-time education at undergraduate level are not eligible.
▪ The retired, employed and those in full-time education form a substantial part of our visitor population.
▪ Smaller firms in the past have tended to recruit younger people, especially those not continuing in full-time education.
employee
▪ Working hours fell for full-time employees between 1975 and 1984.
▪ It had only one full-time employee and required no financial commitment from its members.
▪ Labour law application for full-time employees generally applies to the full extent also for part-time employees.
▪ I inherited a staff of over twenty-five coaches, and over two hundred full-time employees.
▪ The part-time worker has the right to a monthly salary proportionally equivalent to that of a corresponding full-time employee.
▪ The Quality Shop itself had only five full-time employees.
▪ The agency has a staff of three full-time employees and a budget of about $ 400, 000.
▪ Only half of the zones required any certification concerning full-time employees or new jobs created.
employment
▪ He praised the effort and resolve shown by part-time students in completing professional courses in addition to the daily challenges of full-time employment.
▪ So the gut issue is a commitment to numbers at which part-timers may transfer to full-time employment.
▪ Sir Adrian utterly rejects the definition of work as full-time employment.
▪ I am currently working as a temp, so any contributions to the fund will be minimal until I find full-time employment.
▪ In Cramlington there were actual job losses for women in full-time employment.
▪ Applicants may be in full-time employment, self employment or unemployed.
▪ Now claimants have to be both available and be prepared to accept full-time employment.
▪ Such beliefs, coinciding with the growing phenomenon of abrupt cessation of full-time employment, encouraged the growth of the preparation-for-retirement movement.
farmer
▪ Many of the full-time farmers and the more established part-time farmers were already at maximum output so room for increase was limited.
▪ More full-time farmers than part-time farmers in the study would have liked extra land.
▪ For the full-time farmer the type of land assumed much greater importance than for the part-time farmer.
▪ Mr. Geraint Howells Can the Minister explain why 10,000 full-time farmers left the land last year?
housewife
▪ Former full-time housewives should search around for evidence of skills other than domestic ones.
▪ She quit her secretarial job to become a full-time housewife.
▪ Since the majority of the women were full-time housewives, some self-categorization as housewives can, in any case, be predicted.
▪ Out of the many thousands of respondents to our questionnaire, under a fifth were full-time housewives.
▪ Now I sank even lower to the rank of a full-time housewife.
job
▪ Anything - or nothing - can be bloated into a full-time job.
▪ Like many entrepreneurs on a shoestring, they are attempting to start a business while they continue to work full-time jobs.
▪ Women with dependent children are less likely to have full-time jobs but more likely to have part-time jobs, than women without.
▪ C.-it was a full-time job and there was no choice in the matter.
▪ My boyfriend has a full-time job but barely gives me enough money for the shopping.
▪ The increase in auto imports is expected to create an estimated 450 full-time jobs.
▪ Among this minority, a high proportion are one- and two-parent households headed by parents without a full-time job.
▪ But most people in Hanoi could not afford consumer luxuries, and even acquiring necessities was a full-time job.
member
▪ In practice much of the initiation and review of management policy fell to the four full-time members acting with the chief officers.
▪ At least forty-eight loyalists were arrested, two of whom turned out to be full-time members of the Ulster Defence Regiment.
▪ Ernest Bussey was the fourth full-time member of the Central Authority, taking charge of labour relations and welfare.
▪ Two full-time members of staff are funded by Liverpool City Council, while running costs are met by public and corporate donations.
▪ Earlier plans to have a full-time member with financial expertise or to take charge of relations with Area Boards had been abandoned.
mother
▪ Have you ever thought of giving up work and being a full-time mother?
▪ Remember that the emotional vulnerability of the full-time mother affects her family as well.
▪ They believe a child needs a full-time mother.
▪ The evidence shows that depression is much more common among full-time mothers than employed mothers.
officer
▪ Elected full-time officers are on hand to make representations or answer queries on behalf of individual students.
▪ Captain and Mrs Burrows were both full-time officers and totally involved in the life of the busy corps.
▪ Small schools that might not need a full-time officer may be able to share one.
▪ They've appointed a full-time officer for the job.
staff
▪ A team of two full-time staff is being employed to follow up leads.
▪ Recently scaled back under fiscal duress, the symphony has a 31-week winter and summer season and a full-time staff of 21.
▪ The organisation finances a full-time staff of about 20 with offices in Westminster, Preston and Glasgow.
▪ JBird employs seven full-time staff members, several free-lancers and about 20 talent scouts worldwide.
▪ However, it is not possible to require full-time staff to work for periods of duty which only cover the peak workloads.
▪ A full-time staff of 250 is supplemented by another 100 or so from various social service programs, like General Assistance.
▪ He started Al Shaab in 1946, with four full-time staff in Jaffa.
▪ With three less full-time staff than there were two years ago, they have to work very hard to compensate.
student
▪ Part-time students take either one or two courses a year and attend the same daytime classes as full-time students.
▪ Kerrie, another full-time student, feels the whistle of the ax as it swings by, just above her head.
▪ The college is also considering issuing passes to all full-time students.
▪ He was now, as dancers are for all their lives, a full-time student.
▪ Suppose one wants to take a sample of full-time students of a university.
▪ This is because full-time students will only have to pay one fifth of the Personal Community Charge. 2.
▪ Every full-time student at Darlington College of Technology will be able to travel abroad by 1994, according to a new report.
▪ The most vulnerable were full-time students over 19; students from lower social classes; lone parents and couples with children.
study
▪ If successful, such students will be recommended for reinstatement of their grants and return to full-time study.
▪ Some professions require you to seek further qualifications which entail another period of full-time study.
▪ Courses are generally of 12 months' duration by full-time study.
▪ How many years will it take to complete the course by full-time study?
▪ The period of study depends upon entry qualifications but for the MPhil a minimum of 12 months full-time study is required.
▪ It then suggested a pattern of full-time study consisting of two courses, which were dubbed C1 and C2.
▪ They study by a variety of methods, including evening classes, distance-learning and full-time study.
training
▪ The Republic of Ireland international resumed full-time training yesterday.
▪ The evidence certainly suggests that full-time training officers, who can spend all their time on training, are rare.
work
▪ The financial constraints on wives are also not so serious, as an increasing proportion of married women are in full-time work.
▪ Sandy, who had been primarily a housewife in her former marriage, wanted an equal partnership and full-time work.
▪ A recent Department of Employment survey found that only 13% of part-timers did such jobs because they could not find full-time work.
▪ So far, Jiang said, he has not been able to find full-time work.
▪ To carry out even that form of monitoring would have required the full-time work of two clerks.
▪ Late that summer, after two and a half years of searching, she finally found full-time work.
▪ Thirty years after the Equal Pay Act, women in full-time work earn only four-fifths of what men earn.
▪ The much vaunted working families tax credit gives £207 a week to those with one parent in full-time work.
worker
▪ Gedge's girlfriend, Sally Murrell, is a roadie and full-time worker for the band.
▪ The problem is there are fewer and fewer full-time workers and more and more lower-paid temporary ones.
▪ The Act gives protection, if sometimes uncertain protection, to most full-time workers living in agricultural tied cottages.
▪ And this is the average income for full-time workers.
▪ One extra part-timer has been taken on and another part-timer and one full-time worker are being sought.
▪ Meals on Wheels and More eliminated a social worker and a nutritionist and turned some full-time workers into part-time workers.
▪ Meanwhile an interim award of £1 was made to full-time workers; part-time workers got nothing.
▪ The latter rate is equivalent to about half of the median earnings for all full-time workers.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Janine attends high school full-time and works part-time.