part time

[ pahrt-tahym ]

/ ˈpɑrt ˈtaɪm /

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noun

a period of time that is less than full time: Thirty-five hours a week is still considered part time.Abbreviations: PT, P/TCompare full time.

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Origin of part time

First recorded in 1890–95

Words nearby part time

Parts of Holland, Parts of Kesteven, Parts of Lindsey, parts of speech, part song, part time, part-timer, parturient, parturient fever, parturifacient, parturition

Other definitions for part time (2 of 2)

part-time

[ adjective pahrt-tahym; adverb pahrt-tahym ]

/ adjective ˈpɑrtˌtaɪm; adverb ˈpɑrtˈtaɪm /

adjective

employed to work, used, expected to function, etc., less than the usual or full time: a part-time clerk.

lasting, requiring, or being in force only a part of the time: part-time employment; part-time jobs.

adverb

on a part-time basis: to work part-time.

Compare full-time.

Origin of part-time

First recorded in 1890–95; adj., adv. use of part time

How to use part time in a sentence

Carillo has worked full time in banquet services at the local Sheraton and part time at a nearby DoubleTree hotel for years.
Laid-off hotel employees fight for ‘right to return’ to work|Ovetta Wiggins|September 26, 2021|Washington Post
While most students across the region were relegated to online instruction alone for the last year, some schools did open at least part time – even at the secondary level.
5 Takeaways on Schools’ Coronavirus Aid Spending|Ashly McGlone|April 26, 2021|Voice of San Diego
Three servers have stayed on “super part time” to work as delivery drivers.
Restaurants Avoiding Big Delivery Apps Have to Get Creative|Kristen Hawley|February 1, 2021|Eater
The move to Austin from Redwood City “means that many of our employees can choose their office location as well as continue to work from home part time or all of the time,” Oracle said Friday in a regulatory filing.
Oracle moves its headquarters to Texas, adding to Silicon Valley exodus|Verne Kopytoff|December 11, 2020|Fortune

It started as part time about a decade ago and is on track to break $2 million in sales this year, nearly doubling sales since 2018.
After reimagining apartment storage, Bradyl bloomed|Thomas Heath|November 22, 2020|Washington Post
Since the 1950s, fluoride has adapted itself to the prevailing concerns of the time.
Anti-Fluoriders Are The OG Anti-Vaxxers|Michael Schulson|July 27, 2016|DAILY BEAST
Added to drinking water at concentrations of around one part per million, fluoride ions stick to dental plaque.
Anti-Fluoriders Are The OG Anti-Vaxxers|Michael Schulson|July 27, 2016|DAILY BEAST
But give the Kingdom credit for its sense of mercy: The lashes will be administered only 50 at a time.
In Defense of Blasphemy|Michael Tomasky|January 9, 2015|DAILY BEAST
“I think for trans men who are dating every time they hook up they have another coming out,” Sandler said.
Grindr’s Trans Dating Problem|David Levesley|January 9, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Music is a huge part of the tone of Black Dynamite overall—going back to the original 2009 movie on which the series is based.
‘Black Dynamite’ Presents Police Brutality: The Musical|Stereo Williams|January 9, 2015|DAILY BEAST
It ended on a complaint that she was 'tired rather and spending my time at full length on a deck-chair in the garden.'
The Wave|Algernon Blackwood
The vision—it had been an instantaneous flash after all and nothing more—had left his mind completely for the time.
The Wave|Algernon Blackwood
About this time the famous Philippine painter, Juan Luna (vide p. 195), was released after six monthsʼ imprisonment as a suspect.
The Philippine Islands|John Foreman
I hate to be long at my toilette at any time; but to delay much in such a matter while travelling is folly.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846|Various
On the upper part of the stem the whorls are very close together, but they are more widely separated at the lower portion.
How to Know the Ferns|S. Leonard Bastin

British Dictionary definitions for part time

part-time

adjective

for less than the entire time appropriate to an activitya part-time job; a part-time waitress

adverb part time

on a part-time basishe works part time

Compare full-time

Derived forms of part-time

part-timer, noun

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