| 单词 | half-timer | 
| 释义 | half-timern.  One who spends half the usual or full time at anything. spec.  a.  One who works half-time in a factory. ΘΚΠ the world > time > 			[noun]		 > stretch, period, or portion of time > one who spends half the time at something half-timer1865 1865    Daily Tel. 3 Nov. 5/5  				Now a half-timer will get more than he once did for full time. 1883    Standard 30 Nov. 2/4  				A child entered the mill as a half-timer at ten years old.  b.  A half-time scholar: see half-time n. Compounds. ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > learner > one attending school > 			[noun]		 > full- or part-time pupil full-timer1839 short-timer1863 half-timer1870 1870    Morning Post 2 June 2/1  				There is no uniform rule as to the period either of age or knowledge when the ‘full-timer’ shall become the ‘half-timer’. 1879    T. H. S. Escott England I. 260  				The half-timer [at school] is compelled to be regular in attendance. 1890    Times 19 Sept. 7/5  				Half-timers—that is, children who divide their time between the school and the factory. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2012). < | 
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