short timenoun [ U ]
uk/ˌʃɔːt ˈtaɪm/us/ˌʃɔːrt ˈtaɪm/also reduced time UKa situation in which the people who work at a factory or in an office work fewer days or hours than usual for less money because there is not much work to do:
He's been put on short time because business is so quiet.
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Types of employment
- administrative
- administrative assistant
- at the coalface idiom
- backroom boys
- blue-collar
- clerk
- honorary
- lackey
- managerial
- menial
- NEET
- off-duty
- probation
- professionally
- shiftwork
- skilled
- slave labour
- subcontractor
- sweated
- wilderness
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