part-timer
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3.0
- noun
- /ˈpɑrtˌtaɪmər/
:
trabajador a tiempo parcial
- He's got a full-time staff of five and numerous part-timers.
- employing part-timers
- part-timers and full
- part-timer makes
Examples
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She was hired as a part-timer during the summer to help manage the store.
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Dewey had seventeen employees under him and two part-timers, which was a lot for a Cincinnati professional investigation firm.
Fiction book (1995) -
Well, the part-timers like Frank here...
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I just need one part timer.
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Are you a part timer?
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Now one out of four women workers is a part-timer.
Academic text (1991) -
So use full time employees for the base and then hire part timers for the peaks.
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I heard that Snowy head office want some part timers among the students here, so go to the head office tomorrow.
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The remainder were hospital-based part-timers receiving proportionately reduced benefits.
Academic text (1994) -
In retailing alone, nearly 30 percent of part-timers want full-time jobs, up from 10.6 percent in 2006.
Blog text (34)
How Much Work
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3.0
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Part-timer comes from the parts part ('not all'), time ('working hours'), and the ending -er ('a person who does something'). So a part-timer is a person who works only some of the usual hours, not a full-timer who works all the usual hours.