full-time
/ˌfʊl ˈtaɪm/
full-time adjective: involving a full amount of time spent on some activity, especially a job.
Adjective
full-time (not comparable)
- 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.
Adverb
full-time (not comparable)
- Spending a full amount of time.
- to work full-time
- Area Boards are wholly part-time, but their Chairmen are members of the Commission and may work full-time in that capacity.1960 September, “The Select Committee on Nationalised Industries examines British Railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 524
full-time meaning in Hindi, Bengali, Kannada and Indonesian
full-time in Hindi
- full-time
- पूर्णकालिक pūrṇkālik
full-time in Bengali
- full-time
- পূর্ণসময় purnośomoẏ
full-time in Kannada
- ಪೂರ್ಣಕಾಲದ, ಪೂರ್ಣಾವಧಿಯ
full-time in Indonesian
- Involving a full amount of time spent on some activity
- purnawaktu
Examples of full-time in a sentence
- Recently in Sydney we met a male witch who claimed that witchcraft was his full-time occupation.1965, Attila Zohar, Kings Cross Black Magic, Sydney: Horwitz Publications, page 69:
- "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.2021 January 13, Paul Stephen, “I'd like to do it all over again”, in RAIL, issue 922, page 46:
Antonyms of full-time
Forms of full-time
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Origin of full-time
From full + time.
Words formed from full-time
Phrases with full-time
Questions about full-time
- What does full-time mean?
- Full-time means involving a full amount of time spent on some activity, especially a job.
- What is full-time in Hindi?
- Full-time in Hindi is पूर्णकालिक (pūrṇkālik). See Full-time meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use full-time in a sentence?
- Recently in Sydney we met a male witch who claimed that witchcraft was his full-time occupation.
- What part of speech is full-time?
- Full-time can be an adjective or an adverb.
- How do you pronounce full-time?
- Full-time is pronounced /ˌfʊl ˈtaɪm/.
Words near full-time in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: full-time (page history and authors); पूर्णकालिक (Hindi) (page history and authors); পূর্ণসময় (Bengali) (page history and authors); full-time (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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