part time

noun
a period of time that is less than the usual or full time.
Compare full time.


Origin:
1890–95

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part-time

[adj. pahrt-tahym; adv. pahrt-tahym]
adjective
1.
employed to work, used, expected to function, etc., less than the usual or full time: a part-time clerk.
2.
lasting, requiring, or being in force only a part of the time: part-time employment; part-time jobs.
adverb
3.
on a part-time basis: to work part-time.
Compare full-time.


Origin:
1890–95; adj., adv. use of part time

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World English Dictionary
part-time
 
adj
1.  for less than the entire time appropriate to an activity: a part-time job; a part-time waitress
 
adv
2.  on a part-time basis: he works part time
 
part-'timer
 
n

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part-time
1891, from part (n.) + time.
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Example sentences
In becoming part time workers they also lose touch with new developments.
He works for this concession stand part time, on top of a full-time job with an airline that lets him fly for free.
My interest here as a part time student of astrobiology is eukaryote type events and its likelihood.
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