| 单词 | whole-timer |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswhole-timer whole-timer n. (a) (now chiefly South Asian) a person who works full time; cf. full-timer n. 2; (b) a child who attends school during the whole of the school hours; cf. full-timer n. 1 (now historical). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to conditions > [noun] > one who works at specific time or hours night worker1601 daysman?1614 nightman1620 dayworker1802 dayman1821 full-timer1839 whole-timer1840 all-night man1861 part-timer1886 all-timer1891 over-timer1910 Saturdayite1932 nine-to-fiver1945 1840 H. S. Chapman in Rep. Assistant Hand-loom Weavers Commissioners: Pt. II 528 in Parl. Papers (H.L. 14) XXVII. 1 The ‘half-timers’ will earn 1s. 9d. to 2s., and the ‘whole-timers’ 3s. 9d. to 4s. 9d. 1856 Minutes Comm. Council Educ. 1855–6 480 I would divide each class into two divisions, whole-timers and half-timers. 1909 C. E. Woodruff Expansion of Races xii. 185 Factory employees work half the day and go to school the other half, and they make better progress than the whole timers who are really kept in school more hours per day than is good for them. 2013 Dawn (Pakistan) (Nexis) 20 Oct. After grade seven, I quit school and started working as a whole-timer to master the skills of stone-carving and inlay (Pietra dura) work. < as lemmas |
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