full-time

See also: fulltime, and full time

English

Etymology

full +‎ time

Adjective

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.

   • 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.

Antonyms

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

Translations

Involving a full amount of time spent on some activity

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 全職／全职 (zh) (quánzhí), 全职 (zh) (quánzhí), 專職／专职 (zh) (zhuānzhí), 专职 (zh) (zhuānzhí), 專任／专任 (zh) (zhuānrèn), 专任 (zh) (zhuānrèn)

• Danish: fuldtids-, heltids-, heldags-
• Dutch: voltijds (nl)
• Finnish: kokopäiväinen, kokopäivä-, täysipäiväinen, päätoiminen
• French: plein temps (fr), à temps plein (fr)
• German: Vollzeit- (in compound words)
• Hungarian: (of a person or a job) teljes munkaidős, (of occupation in general) teljes munkaidejű, (in higher education) nappali (tagozatos)
• Indonesian: purnawaktu (id)
• Italian: a tempo pieno, full-time, giornata intera
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• Japanese: フルタイム (furutaimu)
• Korean: 상근의 (sanggeunui), 풀타임의 (pultaimui)
• Norwegian: heltids
• Polish: pełnoetatowy
• Portuguese: de tempo integral
• Russian: за́нятый по́лное рабо́чее вре́мя (zánjatyj pólnoje rabóčeje vrémja), (adverb) на по́лное рабо́чее вре́мя (na pólnoje rabóčeje vrémja)
• Scottish Gaelic: làn-ùine, làn-thìde
• Spanish: de tiempo completo, de jornada completa
• Swedish: heltids-
• Ukrainian: пості́йна робо́та f (postíjna robóta)
• Welsh: llawn-amser

Adverb

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.

Antonyms

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

Translations

Spending a full amount of time

• Dutch: voltijds (nl)
• Finnish: kokopäiväisesti, täysipäiväisesti, päätoimisesti
• French: à plein temps (fr), à temps plein (fr)
• Hungarian: teljes munkaidőben
• Italian: a tempo pieno
• Korean: 상근으로 (sanggeuneuro), 풀타임으로 (pultaimeuro)
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• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: heltid

  Nynorsk: heiltid

• Swedish: heltid (sv)
• Welsh: yn llawn-amser

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Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English full-time.

Adjective

full-time m or f or n (indeclinable)

1. full-time

Declension

Declension of full-time (invariable)

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	full-time		full-time	full-time	full-time
	definite	—		—	—	—
genitive/ dative	indefinite	full-time		full-time	full-time	full-time
	definite	—		—	—	—

Adverb

full-time

1. full-time