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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
full-time
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.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
full-time

full-time \full-time\ adj. spending or requiring all of the time normally given to an activity; as, full-time students; a full-time job. Opposite of part-time.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
full-time

also fulltime, 1895; full-timer is attested from 1855, in reference to students; see full (adj.) + time (n.).

Wiktionary
full-time
  1. Involving a full amount of time spent on some activity, especially a jo

  2. adv. Spending a full amount of time.

WordNet
full-time
  1. adj. for the entire time appropriate to an activity; "a full-time job" [ant: part-time]

  2. adv. for the standard number of hours; "she works full-time" [ant: half-time]

Wikipedia
Full-time

Full-time employment is employment in which a person works a minimum number of hours defined as such by his/her employer. Full-time employment often comes with benefits that are not typically offered to part-time, temporary, or flexible workers, such as annual leave, sickleave, and health insurance. Part-time jobs are mistakenly thought by some to not be careers. However, legislation exists to stop employers from discriminating against part-time workers so this should not be a factor when making decisions on career advancement. They generally pay more than part-time jobs per hour, and this is similarly discriminatory if the pay decision is based on part-time status as a primary factor. The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) does not define full-time employment or part-time employment. This is a matter generally to be determined by the employer (US Department of Labor). The definition by employer can vary and is generally published in a company's Employee Handbook. Companies commonly require from 35 to 40 hours per week to be defined as full-time and therefore eligible for benefits.

Full-Time status varies between company and is often based on the shift the employee must work during each work week. The "standard" work week consists of five eight-hour days, commonly served between 9:00AM to 5:00PM or 10:00AM to 6:00pm totaling 40 hours. While a four-day week generally consists of four ten-hour days; it may also consist of as little as nine hours for a total of a 36-hour work week. Twelve-hour shifts are often three days per week, unless the company has the intention of paying out the employee overtime. Overtime is legally paid out anytime an employee works more than 40 hours per week. The legal minimum for overtime starts at Base Pay + One-Half. The increased payout is considered to compensate slightly for the increased fatigue which a person experiences on such long shifts. Shifts can also be very irregular, as in retail, but are still full-time if the required number of hours is reached. There are some situations where a person who needs full-time work is dropped to part-time, which is sometimes a form of constructive dismissal to avoid paying unemployment benefits to a laid-off worker.

Usage examples of "full-time".

And as the professional, full-time sales staff was replaced by minimum-wage workers, the chances of maintaining a relationship with a businessperson declined.

On Monday morning, the CO, having seen the work of the dogs on the night maneuver and knowing our need for accurate rifles, agreed to let Transport work on the carbines full-time for two weeks.

By the end of the century, cryptology had become important enough for most states to keep full-time cipher secretaries occupied in making up new keys, enciphering and deciphering messages, and solving intercepted dispatches.

Jeff Daniels had served solely as househusband and clergy spouse to his full-time pastor wife.

Not really full-time jobholders, most of them, but that was how they saw themselves.

About two-thirds of multiple jobholders work one job full-time and the other part-time.

Quiet times were rare, and they interviewed several women before se lecting one as necessary part-time staff with the Ca pability of temporary full-time work as and when Danielle or Mane might be absent.

At the apex of the pyramid dwell those full-time CDs who have elected to have sexual reassignment surgery.

I had expected the place to be run down, as many large, Irish country houses are, but it was kept in perfect condition by a full-time carpenter painter and a domestic staff of three.

I liked steeplechasing enormously, and with full-time professional application I might just have made a decent success.

An early convert to Christianity, Yoshino studied in Europe and the United States before assuming a full-time position in political thought on the faculty of Tokyo Imperial University in 1913.

Javier Salizar, a pediatrician who worked full-time at the clinic and who had been on duty the night the banditos attacked.

The stacks of finished and partly-finished canvases have grown considerably in the months since full-time work came to an end.

Although the INC operated out of Iraqi Kurdistan until 1996, with ample funding and with ostensible air cover from the United States, it was never able to attract more than a few hundred full-time followers and never garnered significant defections from the Iraqi armed forces--let alone started a popular revolt.

Some hippies work, others live on money from home and many are full-time beggars.