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part-time

part-time

51 1.4
For fewer hours than in a full-time job
  • adverb
  • /ˈpɑrtˌtaɪm/
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  • I am working part-time at the church now.
  • work part-time
  • attend college part-time
  • enrol part-time

And so they started employing me part time to teach.

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Examples

  • I worked for her part-time when I went to college.

  • I work part-time at a local coffee shop while studying at university.

  • So this includes part time work and full time work.

  • And so they started employing me part time to teach.

  • In college, I worked part time for the Boston Globe.

  • You could even live here and go to the city college part-time, and still get a job if you wanted to.

    Fiction book (2001)
  • I only work at the video store part-time.

  • So I'm teaching now, part-time, staying closer to home.

  • I'm working on getting my Masters part-time.

  • I teach part-time at Alamance Junior College.

Synonyms

half-time
vspart-time
4 3.2

Working or happening for only half the usual hours

is broader and means working fewer than full hours not limited to half

Antonyms

324 2.6

For the whole normal working time for a job or course

How Long

full-time
324 2.6
part-time
51 1.4

Surface Forms

part-time positive

Morphology

part-time = part + time (transparent) = part + time

The adverbial use is the same compound 'part'+'time' used to indicate doing something for a portion of the usual hours, which is directly inferable.

Etymology

The word part-time is made from part and time, where part means 'a piece' and time means 'hours'. Used as an adverb, it means doing something for only a piece of the usual hours, so to work part-time is to work fewer hours than a full-time job.