part time
a period of time that is less than full time: Thirty-five hours a week is still considered part time.Abbreviations: PT, P/T: Compare full time.
Origin of part time
1Other definitions for part-time (2 of 2)
employed, functioning, or working less than the customary or requisite number of hours: They had only enough money to hire a part-time clerk.
lasting, requiring, or being in force only a part of the time: part-time employment;part-time jobs.
on a part-time basis: to work part-time.
Origin of part-time
2- Compare full-time.
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How to use part time in a sentence
He teaches parttime, parttime teaching in Russian, was familiar to Ruth as the son-in-law of her tutor.
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British Dictionary definitions for part-time
for less than the entire time appropriate to an activity: a part-time job; a part-time waitress
on a part-time basis: he works part time
- Compare full-time
Derived forms of part-time
- part-timer, noun
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