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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
part-time
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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
a part-time worker
▪ A high percentage of the female staff were part-time workers.
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 work
▪ In recent years part-time work has become more popular.
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
■ NOUN
barman
▪ Like others who had gone before him, Neville the part-time barman was a very worried man.
▪ The effort was wasted of course, and the part-time barman slumped away into the darkness taking his scotch with him.
▪ The part-time barman was doing all he could, but his good eye wandered for ever towards the Swan's door.
basis
▪ Many are occupied by women on a part-time basis.
▪ They established a bakery that eventually employed several hundred village girls on a part-time basis while they finished school.
▪ Upon reaching retirement age Len found that he missed the job so much he came back on a part-time basis.
▪ Some courses are also offered on a part-time basis over 24-36 months.
▪ After a period of full-time child-care, many women return to paid employment on a part-time basis.
▪ The packaging department and the despatch department each employ one member of staff working on a part-time basis.
▪ He succeeds Larry Brook, who continues working with the Foundation on a part-time basis in conjunction with establishing his own consulting firm.
▪ They should operate on a part-time basis and attract their own television and sponsorship.
course
▪ Full and part-time courses are continually running so call for up-to-date information.
▪ Students on the part-time course will work from home, visiting Middlesbrough only for the final examination.
▪ However, as secondments became more difficult to obtain, there appears to be a shift in the direction of part-time courses.
▪ Colchester Institute 0206-761660: 250 full and part-time courses.
▪ A variety of part-time courses are also offered for those who can't commit themselves full-time.
▪ A creche is provided on site for part-time courses.
▪ They include a wide range of full-time and part-time courses which vary considerably in length, level and objectives.
degree
▪ She helped a succession of youngsters to take part-time degrees by getting them jobs as kitchen porters or trainee cooks.
▪ Continuing a correspondence course is easy; finding another part-time degree may be less so.
▪ Can you keep up regular attendance at college if you pick the part-time degree?
▪ But a quick brainstorm with 50 further education lecturers on a part-time degree course revealed the same negative associations.
▪ Decisions on part-time degree applicants are normally taken by senior tutors.
employee
▪ Labour law application for full-time employees generally applies to the full extent also for part-time employees.
▪ Nelson has three full-time and two part-time employees.
▪ There was no justifiable reason for differential treatment of the part-time employees concerning the increase in salary and reduction in work hours.
▪ But the part-time employee whom Kelly sent was not your average temp.
▪ In future, therefore, employers will have to pay much closer attention to the principle of non-discrimination against part-time employees.
▪ But the Commission is also preparing Directives setting minimum conditions for part-time employees and young people.
employment
▪ They forget I took the job on the understanding that management of a national team can only be part-time employment.
▪ One force has been the phenomenal growth in part-time employment.
▪ Some 15,000 crofts, small family farm units that offer marginal incomes and mainly part-time employment, have survived.
▪ Thirdly, the lack of adequate and affordable child care remains a significant barrier to employment, even part-time employment.
▪ Almost all of this increase was in part-time employment.
▪ Many find themselves in low-paid part-time employment, with few prospects for real security or advancement.
▪ The reforms in national insurance contributions will abolish the in-built bias currently in existence to create part-time employment.
▪ Eleven million women are now in full or part-time employment.
farm
▪ Tourism was of great importance and added to the earning capacity of many full-time and part-time farms.
▪ In recent years cropping had taken over from livestock particularly on part-time farms.
▪ More part-time farms had the paperwork done by the husband, who was often experienced in paperwork in his other employment.
▪ On the part-time farms 18% of the wives had off-farm jobs, varying from 18 hours per week to full-time employment.
farmer
▪ The willingness of part-time farmers to go on training courses demonstrates their determination to make the most of their farms.
▪ Repeal of Act 70 will make smaller farms more affordable to part-time farmers, and mortgage finance much less elitist.
▪ Proper training in this field could have significant benefits to the family farmer and part-time farmer.
▪ Areas with predominantly family or part-time farmers would need close consultation in the provision of training.
▪ 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.
▪ Very few part-time farmers went away for a holiday so this should not be difficult.
▪ The time factor was a problem both to full-time and part-time farmers but for entirely different reasons.
job
▪ Once the country's largest dry ski-slope is fully operational it is hoped to offer up to 70 part-time jobs to experienced skiers.
▪ A shifting constellation of part-time jobs is becoming the middle-class norm.
▪ When Stephen had met her, she had just begun her part-time job with a community youth project in Exeter.
▪ In addition, she did all the housework, her graduate studies, and held down two part-time jobs.
▪ Taking on part-time jobs could help pay their way without relying totally on parents and the state for financial support.
▪ Then I took a one-day-a-week, part-time job that pays me $ 35 a week.
▪ Women with dependent children are less likely to have full-time jobs but more likely to have part-time jobs, than women without.
▪ They keep off the jobless roles by taking early retirement, holding part-time jobs or enrolling in government-run training programs.
member
▪ Step-children may be full-time or part-time members of the household.
▪ As the planning team was made up mainly of part-time members, we quickly realised that communication was an important issue.
▪ The council received city support for a part-time member of staff.
▪ When teenage children are involved, as full-time or part-time members of the new family, there is considerable added pressure.
▪ Most companies have a balance between full-time executive directors and part-time members of the board.
research
▪ A new initiative has been started to recruit part-time research students, initially from the graduates of the M.Ed degree programme.
staff
▪ Some Health Authorities pursue policies which limit or eradicate the use of part-time staff.
▪ These are the times when part-time staff should be utilised.
▪ Some enlightened and forward-thinking employers are already beginning to recognise this potential manpower re-source for both full and part-time staff.
▪ They usually employ many part-time staff since this reduces the amount of National Insurance contributions the company has to pay.
▪ In addition to the full-time staff there was also a part-time staff of ten women teachers.
▪ The manager adjusts recruitment activity to create optimum balance between the number of full-time and part-time staff.
▪ Is the employment of full-time and part-time staff matched against the workload across the 7-day period?
▪ Moreover, the funding for part-time staff involvement and administrative and clerical back-up is also provided from these institutional sources.
student
▪ Neither constraint applies to the Tertiary College where adults and part-time students make up a sizable proportion of the student population.
▪ The lack of help has forced the part-time student and administrative assistant to move to her parents' South San Francisco home.
▪ He is a part-time student at Teesside Polytechnic and has worked on Teesside all his life.
▪ 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.
▪ Over 13,500 full-time and part-time students are currently enrolled for courses at all levels, from doctoral studies to part-time certificate programmes.
▪ However, during the past twelve years the balance between full-time and part-time students has shifted markedly in favour of the former.
▪ The first part-time students will enrol next April.
▪ This enables part-time students to be linked into the research community and undertake joint work with others based around the world.
study
▪ Three tiers of certificate are offered: Part 1, usually taken after one or two years part-time study.
▪ Can you switch to part-time study, if necessary?
▪ However, candidates from overseas are not normally allowed to enrol for part-time study.
▪ We will make financial assistance available for part-time study.
▪ Applications for part-time study are also welcomed.
▪ A more limited number of courses are available by part-time study only.
▪ Those with non A-level entry qualifications obtained by part-time study obtained the highest degree results on average.
▪ Non-degree applicants apply direct to the Polytechnic, as do students wishing to undertake degree programmes by part-time study.
teacher
▪ The research will take the form of participant observation with all three of us acting as part-time teachers in the schools.
▪ It seems that the centre flourished and that by the early 1980s it had over 300 pupils and 31 part-time teachers.
▪ Several centres organise classes and recruit their own part-time teachers.
▪ Miss Seti Losli had been a part-time teacher of the violin since January 1947.
▪ The RACs should again be asked to draw up and submit plans to meet the needs of part-time teachers in their regions.
▪ Finally, the national forum recommended by the first Haycocks Report should perform the same function for courses for part-time teachers.
▪ Mr. Beggs Was the significant increase in the number of temporary and part-time teachers included in the calculation of pupil-teacher ratios?
tutor
▪ The recruitment of part-time tutors was a matter of concern: The area is small in population and particularly academic population.
▪ Joyce became a part-time tutor at a creamer's, while still participating in the social life of his peers.
▪ Given the School's rapid rate of growth, more part-time tutors are needed across the full range of management activities.
work
▪ Many women, especially those with children, like part-time work.
▪ The students participate in paid internships during the summer and part-time work during the school year.
▪ His existence had been particularly dull, holding down brief part-time work selling clothes in Manchester's underground fashion world.
▪ Now our job may be less demanding, or we may need less money and cut back to part-time work.
▪ However, a large proportion of married women do work outside the home, particularly in part-time work.
▪ Over the last decade three quarters of the increase in part-time work has been involuntary.
▪ He carried on doing some lorry driving alongside this part-time work, but was eventually offered a full-time contract in youth work.
▪ I could easily go in and request part-time work, and no one would think badly of me.
worker
▪ Of these, four-fifths were women and over four-fifths were part-time workers.
▪ The outfit grew to $ 1. 1 million in sales last year with 140 part-time workers.
▪ Would not it be a disaster for part-time workers, women workers and, indeed, all workers in Britain?
▪ In addition, two-thirds of all part-time workers are women, many holding more than one job.
▪ I hope that part-time workers will take note of that.
▪ One of the part-time workers is a former student in this program.
▪ There is also a significant difference in membership between full- and part-time workers.
▪ We pretty much accept without protest the idea that part-time workers will get paid less.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
on a voluntary/part-time/temporary etc basis
▪ After a period of full-time child-care, many women return to paid employment on a part-time basis.
▪ Herrera ordered that this inhuman practice must cease and proposed to put recruiting on a voluntary basis.
▪ However, to date this exciting new technology has only adopted on a voluntary basis.
▪ Social responsibility is thus not merely a matter of the adoption of changed standards on a voluntary basis.
▪ The numbers are growing and the club is doing well, but more help is needed on a voluntary basis.
▪ There had developed since Khrushchev's time policies to involve the populace more in low-level administrative activities on a voluntary basis.
▪ This reduction was largely achieved on a voluntary basis, and our employees showed remarkable resilience and loyalty, despite such difficulties.
▪ This was often done on a temporary basis at first, but usually the fences became permanent hedges or walls.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ She's a part-time bartender.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Early in the setup of the Northwest Respirator Center he hired Dunning to work as his part-time associate director.
▪ He had taken a part-time job selling a line of cosmetics the manufacturer had labeled as all-natural products.
▪ Of course, integrated programmes are less suitable for part-time attendees and those who want to do parts of a modular programme.
▪ Similar one-day workshops for new part-time academic staff were piloted in June.
▪ Students on the part-time course will work from home, visiting Middlesbrough only for the final examination.
▪ The willingness of part-time farmers to go on training courses demonstrates their determination to make the most of their farms.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
part-time

part-time \part-time\ adj.

  1. Occupying less than the entire time appropriate to an activity; as, a part-time job. Opposed to full-time.

  2. Employed for less than the full time usually expended at a task or occupation; as, part-time employees; a part-time teacher. Opposed to full-time. Commonly, thirty-five hours per week or more is considered full-time, and less than 30 is part-time work.

part-time

part-time \part-time\ adv. For less than the usual full time appropriate to an activity; on a part-time basis; as, to sell real estate part-time. Opposed to full-time.

part-time

part-time \part-time\ n. A working schedule occupying less than full time, i.e. less than 35 hours per week.

Syn: part time.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
part-time

also parttime, 1891, from part (n.) + time (n.). Related: Part-timer.

Wiktionary
part-time

a. for, during, or involving less than the normal time for some activity

WordNet
part-time
  1. adj. involving less than the standard or customary time for an activity; "part-time employees"; "a part-time job" [ant: full-time]

  2. adv. for less than the standard number of hours; "he works part-time" [syn: half-time] [ant: full-time]

Usage examples of "part-time".

It was a segment of a video taken eight months before, at the wedding of Baculum and his twelfth wife, a twenty-three-year-old part-time waitress at a highway restaurant outside of Mobile, Alabama.

Hoo-boy, did it always get this hot in Lowth, or had her part-time job affected her libido?

In fact, it later developed that the mailbox, being otherwise without function on our Post Officeless world, served as guest house and part-time brothel.

City Administration Building across from City Hall to apply for a part-time job to help him with his tuition at Temple University, where he was then a premedical sophomore.

If Ellis Loew got ahold of the dope he would probably quash it along with the skinny on Betty as a part-time prostie, so I decided to omit it from the report and give the information verbally to Russ Millard.

While Jan finished his senior year as a biochemistry major at the University of Maryland, he worked part-time at AFRRI, the Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute.

She made enough money to buy a ground-floor room on the Bergstraat, which she rented part-time to another prostitute.

The Speedway Corporation keeps a roster of mostly local neighborhood people -- usually housewives and college students -- who want part-time holiday work.

Tuttle, by whatever name, is a family member of the second cousin type, or he is the son, this is better, of a beloved sister, and he has spent much of his life in this house, with an undiagnosed condition, or braindamaged, better, and being cared for part-time by a nurse hired by the man, the owner, who is a little tweedy, a little shabby but mostly sad, sort of family sad, and when the owner and his wife Alma resolved to live elsewhere, with the children grown and starting families of their own, they decided to rent this old lopsided pile, their memoried hearth and home, and eventually probably sell, and they put Mr.

For instance, he warned them to stay away from the property of the more touchy citizens who might be expected to defend their possessions and even come into the mountains after thieves, people like Aaron Court and Benny Ripon, a part-time gunfighter and part-time jeweler, and people who might take revenge in other ways, people like Al Bleiberg, the butcher, who might refuse to sell their stolen cattle, or Sheriff Maxie, who might alter his laissez-faire attitude toward Packard activities, or Lilith Moran, who might bar them from the delights of gambling, drinking, and whoring at the Fallen Angel.

And while it would be perfectly possible for them to register for any of the part-time courses provided by the Botswana Secretarial College, they tended not to do this for reasons of shame.

He never worked part-time at The Bullpen or lived in a cheap one-room walkup.

From what she told me, he was living on a sort of part-time basis with a Havasupai woman.

It must have been that the Hearts needed money, poor Farley, shy and uncoordinated, had tried a series of part-time jobs for which Mrs.

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