ˌfull-ˈtimer
[f. phrase full time + -er1.]
1. A child that attends school during the whole of the school hours; opposed to half-timer b.
| 1870 Morning Post 2 June 2/1 There is no uniform rule as to the period either of age or knowledge when the ‘full-timer’ shall become the ‘half-timer’. 1895 Westm. Gaz. 6 June 2/2 He [the half-timer] needn't read so well, write so well, draw so well, cipher so well as the full timer at school. |
2. One who works full-time.
| 1868 Fortn. Rev. Oct. 430 At thirteen the boy ‘passes the doctor’ (i.e., obtains a medical certificate of age), and becomes a ‘full-timer’,..amenable to the same rules, and subject to the same hours of labour, as the adult operative. 1877 H. E. Manning Misc. II. ii. 96 Is it possible for a child to be educated who becomes a full-timer at ten or even twelve years of age? 1934 Times Lit. Suppl. 21 June (Ital. Suppl.) p. v/4 If a full-timer, he began his duties before the lady rose, when he might have to air her linen. |