| 单词 | full-time |
| 释义 | full-time (once / 2148 pages) advadj If you do something full-time, you spend most of your available time doing it. Working full-time usually means spending around forty hours a week doing your work. You can be employed at a full-time job, or you can be a full-time student. Some people are full-time parents, and you might hope to be a full-time artist or a full-time musician one day. In all of these examples, people use the majority of their waking hours (at least during the work week) focusing on one thing. This term dates from the late 1800s. WORD FAMILYfull-time USAGE EXAMPLESMalloy says no one who works full-time should live in poverty. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) The expansion at the Fieldbrook Farms facility in Dunkirk will allow the company to add 61 full-time jobs and retain 586 others. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) While paying for the meals herself keeps things “interesting” financially for the certified nursing assistant who just started working full-time again, it doesn’t matter. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) 1adv for the standard number of hours she works full-time Ant half-time, part-time for less than the standard number of hours 2adj for the entire time appropriate to an activity a full-time job Syn|Ant regular officially full-time part-time, parttime involving less than the standard or customary time for an activity half-timeinvolving half the standard or customary time for an activity irregular, temporarylacking continuity or regularity odd-jobnot regular or skilled underemployedemployed only part-time when one needs full-time employment or not making full use of your skills |
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