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part-time, a.|ˌpɑːtˈtaɪm|
[part adv. c.]
Employed, occurring, lasting, etc., for part of the time or for less than the customary time. Also as adv. Cf. full time.
1891East. Daily Press 26 Aug. 2/1 Wanted, a Part-time Girl, (15), for housework. 1896Daily News 30 Oct. 10/5 Gentleman..open to part-time engagement to manage the advertising of a cycle firm. 1931Times Lit. Suppl. 14 May 380/3 The legislation of 1919..has put some 10,000 small farmers and 20,000 men upon part-time and spare-time holdings. 1955Times 1 July 10/7 The chairman need devote only part of his time to the board. Most of the members should be part-time. 1959New Statesman 23 May 710/2 Are married women who worked part-time for years after the war, but are now being squeezed out, to be compensated? 1965M. Morse Unattached i. 33 She began studying part-time for G.C.E. ‘O’ levels. 1973Fisheries Fact Sheet (Environment Canada Fisheries & Marine Service) No. 1. 4/3 Winter fishing..is carried on by teams of men, many of whom are only part-time fishermen.
Hence part-ˈtimer, a part-time worker, student, or the like.
1927Daily Tel. 3 May 3 (heading) Part-timers employed. 1936A. G. Street Gentleman of Party vii. 134 The dairyman's eldest son, George, went to work as a part-timer at ten years of age. 1939Rostrum (N.Z.) 7 Some grove of Academe where part-timers will have no place. 1952G. Wilson Julien Ware 19 The part-timers were a handful of men engaged by John Cecil for a couple of months at the peak of each year. 1972Daily Tel. 25 Apr. 7/2 Places for at least one million full-time students in 1980 would be planned, with a comparable provision for part-timers. 1976Listener 2 Dec. 712/2 What is often seen as a part-time job is further split among several part-timers: the Times has four people who review [TV] programmes. |