full time
The total number of hours normally allotted to daily or weekly work, etc. Chiefly attrib. (hyphened) and advb., esp. in sense ‘that occupies all one's time, that engages one to the exclusion of other activities’.
| 1898 Daily News 13 Dec. 5/7 The half-time system..does irretrievable hurt to the full-time scholars as well. 1911 Rep. Labour & Social Conditions in Germany III. 89 Full-time employment. Ibid. 97 Full time is worked all the year round. Ibid. 104 All the factories we visited were running full time. 1921 Act 11 & 12 Geo. V c. 51 §77 (2) Any young person..shown..to be under suitable and efficient full-time instruction. a 1926 in Fowler Mod. Eng. Usage 737/2 That motherhood is a full-time job all worth-while mothers will readily admit. 1927 Bowley & Stamp Nat. Income 1924 31 The general average increase in weekly full-time wages. 1930 A. Flexner Universities 87 So-called ‘full-time’ units, consisting of groups on salary devoting themselves solely to teaching, research, and the care of hospital patients. 1955 Times 15 July 9/6 But though the universities will probably be able to satisfy most of the demand for full-time degree-courses they will certainly not be able to supply industry with all the technologists it requires. 1959 Manch. Guardian 6 Aug. 3/5 Mr. Wesker will become a full-time professional writer. 1968 Time 17 May 66 The Institute..now employs 575 full-time civilian analysts. 1971 Engineering Apr. 55/2 It is the full-time business of these agencies. |