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FTE

FTE is the initialism of full-time equivalent.

FTE is the initialism of full-time employee.

FTE is the initialism of Fault Tolerant Ethernet.

Meaning of full-time equivalent

Noun

full-time equivalent (plural full-time equivalents, abbreviation FTE)

  1. The result of a calculation to estimate the effective size of a workforce that may include part-time workers.
    • We estimate our work-from-home employees to be 30% of our total full-time equivalents.

Forms of FTE

pluralFTEs

Questions about FTE

What is FTE the initialism of?
FTE is the initialism of full-time equivalent.

Words near FTE in the dictionary

  1. FTBFS
  2. FTBs
  3. FTC
  4. FTD
  5. FTDs
  6. FTE
  7. FTEs
  8. FTFA
  9. FTFY
  10. FTGH
  11. fth

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: FTE (page history and authors); full-time equivalent (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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