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語源

From full +‎ time.

発音

• IPA: /ˌfʊl ˈtaɪm/

形容詞

full-time (not comparable)

1. Involving a full amount of time spent on some activity, especially a job.

   I have a full-time job, working five days a week.

   Bringing up a child is a full-time activity.

   • 1965, Attila Zohar, Kings Cross Black Magic, Sydney: Horwitz Publications, page 69:

     Recently in Sydney we met a male witch who claimed that witchcraft was his full-time occupation.

   • 2021 January 13, Paul Stephen, “I'd like to do it all over again”, in RAIL, issue 922, page 46:

     "I finished full-time work in 2005 and then switched to part time, because I liked working and it seemed a shame to leave something I enjoyed.

反意語

• (involving a full amount of time): part-time

派生語

副詞

full-time (not comparable)

1. Spending a full amount of time.

   to work full-time

   • 1960 September, “The Select Committee on Nationalised Industries examines British Railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 524:

     Area Boards are wholly part-time, but their Chairmen are members of the Commission and may work full-time in that capacity.

反意語

• (spending a full amount of time): part-time

派生語

• full-time

関連する語

• half time