FULL-TIME


Meaning of FULL-TIME in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a full-time worker

The bureau has only two full-time workers.

a full-time/part-time course

There are also part-time courses for mature students.

a full-time/part-time employee

We now have 110 full-time employees.

a full-time/part-time post

a part-time post as a university lecturer

full-time education (= spending every weekday in a school or college )

Children must stay in full-time education until the age of 16.

full-time work

Are you available for full-time work?

full-time/part-time employment

Mike is in full-time employment, but his wife is not working.

full-time/part-time staff

The school has over 100 full-time staff.

part-time/full-time

He had a part-time job at the pet shop.

work part-time/full-time

I work part-time in a library.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

as

Sir Adrian utterly rejects the definition of work as full-time employment.

The few adults who were allowed to accompany the children had too many demands on them to act as full-time baby minders.

When teenage children are involved, as full-time or part-time members of the new family, there is considerable added pressure.

■ NOUN

basis

Their role will be to provide specialist expertise in this area for the profession on a full-time basis .

When I started my consultancy I was still employed on a full-time basis .

The course is offered on a full-time basis .

Some companies employ people to do this on a full-time basis .

Farming, though still relatively profitable, employs few families on a full-time basis .

course

Later this month it will be a permanent feature of full-time courses at the hotel school.

In addition there are 44 colleges, 11 of which offer full-time courses of at least three years.

Of the former, 10.1 percent were on full-time courses and 11.4 on part-time day release.

These are one-year full-time courses which are normally designed for sixteen-year-olds.

In all, the two full-time courses in the five centres catered for just over 1,300 students in 1980.

Isn't it just possible that students are missing out by being held back on full-time courses for so long?

It provides a full-time course of study combining movement and music with physiotherapy.

education

They are designed to give those not wishing to continue full-time education the chance to gain work experience, training and education.

The numbers of students in full-time education in the West had been dropping since the 1970s, and this trend continued.

Sixty percent of 16 year-olds stay on in full-time education , up from only 40 percent in 1979.

What jobs have I had since leaving full-time education ?

Haycocks I, on training of full-time education teachers was the most important report prepared by the Committee.

Students in full-time education at undergraduate level are not eligible.

The retired, employed and those in full-time education form a substantial part of our visitor population.

Smaller firms in the past have tended to recruit younger people, especially those not continuing in full-time education .

employee

Working hours fell for full-time employees between 1975 and 1984.

It had only one full-time employee and required no financial commitment from its members.

Labour law application for full-time employees generally applies to the full extent also for part-time employees.

I inherited a staff of over twenty-five coaches, and over two hundred full-time employees .

The part-time worker has the right to a monthly salary proportionally equivalent to that of a corresponding full-time employee .

The Quality Shop itself had only five full-time employees .

The agency has a staff of three full-time employees and a budget of about $ 400, 000.

Only half of the zones required any certification concerning full-time employees or new jobs created.

employment

He praised the effort and resolve shown by part-time students in completing professional courses in addition to the daily challenges of full-time employment .

So the gut issue is a commitment to numbers at which part-timers may transfer to full-time employment .

Sir Adrian utterly rejects the definition of work as full-time employment .

I am currently working as a temp, so any contributions to the fund will be minimal until I find full-time employment .

In Cramlington there were actual job losses for women in full-time employment .

Applicants may be in full-time employment , self employment or unemployed.

Now claimants have to be both available and be prepared to accept full-time employment .

Such beliefs, coinciding with the growing phenomenon of abrupt cessation of full-time employment , encouraged the growth of the preparation-for-retirement movement.

farmer

Many of the full-time farmers and the more established part-time farmers were already at maximum output so room for increase was limited.

More full-time farmers than part-time farmers in the study would have liked extra land.

For the full-time farmer the type of land assumed much greater importance than for the part-time farmer.

Mr. Geraint Howells Can the Minister explain why 10,000 full-time farmers left the land last year?

housewife

Former full-time housewives should search around for evidence of skills other than domestic ones.

She quit her secretarial job to become a full-time housewife .

Since the majority of the women were full-time housewives , some self-categorization as housewives can, in any case, be predicted.

Out of the many thousands of respondents to our questionnaire, under a fifth were full-time housewives .

Now I sank even lower to the rank of a full-time housewife .

job

Anything - or nothing - can be bloated into a full-time job .

Like many entrepreneurs on a shoestring, they are attempting to start a business while they continue to work full-time jobs .

Women with dependent children are less likely to have full-time jobs but more likely to have part-time jobs, than women without.

C.-it was a full-time job and there was no choice in the matter.

My boyfriend has a full-time job but barely gives me enough money for the shopping.

The increase in auto imports is expected to create an estimated 450 full-time jobs .

Among this minority, a high proportion are one- and two-parent households headed by parents without a full-time job .

But most people in Hanoi could not afford consumer luxuries, and even acquiring necessities was a full-time job .

member

In practice much of the initiation and review of management policy fell to the four full-time members acting with the chief officers.

At least forty-eight loyalists were arrested, two of whom turned out to be full-time members of the Ulster Defence Regiment.

Ernest Bussey was the fourth full-time member of the Central Authority, taking charge of labour relations and welfare.

Two full-time members of staff are funded by Liverpool City Council, while running costs are met by public and corporate donations.

Earlier plans to have a full-time member with financial expertise or to take charge of relations with Area Boards had been abandoned.

mother

Have you ever thought of giving up work and being a full-time mother ?

Remember that the emotional vulnerability of the full-time mother affects her family as well.

They believe a child needs a full-time mother .

The evidence shows that depression is much more common among full-time mothers than employed mothers.

officer

Elected full-time officers are on hand to make representations or answer queries on behalf of individual students.

Captain and Mrs Burrows were both full-time officers and totally involved in the life of the busy corps.

Small schools that might not need a full-time officer may be able to share one.

They've appointed a full-time officer for the job.

staff

A team of two full-time staff is being employed to follow up leads.

Recently scaled back under fiscal duress, the symphony has a 31-week winter and summer season and a full-time staff of 21.

The organisation finances a full-time staff of about 20 with offices in Westminster, Preston and Glasgow.

JBird employs seven full-time staff members, several free-lancers and about 20 talent scouts worldwide.

However, it is not possible to require full-time staff to work for periods of duty which only cover the peak workloads.

A full-time staff of 250 is supplemented by another 100 or so from various social service programs, like General Assistance.

He started Al Shaab in 1946, with four full-time staff in Jaffa.

With three less full-time staff than there were two years ago, they have to work very hard to compensate.

student

Part-time students take either one or two courses a year and attend the same daytime classes as full-time students.

Kerrie, another full-time student , feels the whistle of the ax as it swings by, just above her head.

The college is also considering issuing passes to all full-time students .

He was now, as dancers are for all their lives, a full-time student .

Suppose one wants to take a sample of full-time students of a university.

This is because full-time students will only have to pay one fifth of the Personal Community Charge. 2.

Every full-time student at Darlington College of Technology will be able to travel abroad by 1994, according to a new report.

The most vulnerable were full-time students over 19; students from lower social classes; lone parents and couples with children.

study

If successful, such students will be recommended for reinstatement of their grants and return to full-time study .

Some professions require you to seek further qualifications which entail another period of full-time study .

Courses are generally of 12 months' duration by full-time study .

How many years will it take to complete the course by full-time study ?

The period of study depends upon entry qualifications but for the MPhil a minimum of 12 months full-time study is required.

It then suggested a pattern of full-time study consisting of two courses, which were dubbed C1 and C2.

They study by a variety of methods, including evening classes, distance-learning and full-time study.

training

The Republic of Ireland international resumed full-time training yesterday.

The evidence certainly suggests that full-time training officers, who can spend all their time on training, are rare.

work

The financial constraints on wives are also not so serious, as an increasing proportion of married women are in full-time work .

Sandy, who had been primarily a housewife in her former marriage, wanted an equal partnership and full-time work .

A recent Department of Employment survey found that only 13% of part-timers did such jobs because they could not find full-time work .

So far, Jiang said, he has not been able to find full-time work .

To carry out even that form of monitoring would have required the full-time work of two clerks.

Late that summer, after two and a half years of searching, she finally found full-time work .

Thirty years after the Equal Pay Act, women in full-time work earn only four-fifths of what men earn.

The much vaunted working families tax credit gives £207 a week to those with one parent in full-time work.

worker

Gedge's girlfriend, Sally Murrell, is a roadie and full-time worker for the band.

The problem is there are fewer and fewer full-time workers and more and more lower-paid temporary ones.

The Act gives protection, if sometimes uncertain protection, to most full-time workers living in agricultural tied cottages.

And this is the average income for full-time workers .

One extra part-timer has been taken on and another part-timer and one full-time worker are being sought.

Meals on Wheels and More eliminated a social worker and a nutritionist and turned some full-time workers into part-time workers.

Meanwhile an interim award of £1 was made to full-time workers; part-time workers got nothing.

The latter rate is equivalent to about half of the median earnings for all full-time workers .

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Janine attends high school full-time and works part-time.

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