part-time
/pɑːtˈtʌɪm
/adjective & adverb
For only part of the usual working day or week: [as adjective]: part-time jobs a part-time teacher [as adverb]: he only worked part-time...
- He took a part-time job as a teacher in a girls school in Leiden which gave him sufficient money to allow him to rent a room.
- She even managed to work part-time as a teacher and gained a job at the University of York after her release.
- He was hoping to take a part-time job to look after his mother and will now have to find another full-time job.
Derivatives
part-timer
/ noun ...- No, Brown's not a freelancer or a part-timer or a telecommuter.
- Job security is a pretty good reason to get riled up if I ever heard one; but there are part-timers in many other provinces and they are extremely beneficial.
- While it might be that many part-timers apparently have more energy than full-time teachers, many are shoddily treated and just as exhausted - if not more.