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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