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Part-time   /pˈɑrttˈaɪm/   Listen
Part-time

adjective
1.
Involving less than the standard or customary time for an activity.  Synonym: parttime.  "A part-time job"
adverb
1.
For less than the standard number of hours.  Synonym: half-time.






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"Part-time" Quotes from Famous Books



... on Saturday afternoon nor on Sundays or holidays. There are no evening or night classes at any time and no student may enroll who is not in a position to devote all the needed time to the pursuit of the work. There is no part-time course, permitting the student to work or go to public or high school while attending the Bogue Institute. The work here is too important to become a "side-issue." We insist that it be the student's regular and ...
— Stammering, Its Cause and Cure • Benjamin Nathaniel Bogue

... delayed earning capacity, as she must be prepared to face outlay for several years without much return. During this time she generally augments the income which she gets from her private practice by other part-time paid work, notably by giving lectures in first aid, etc., by school inspection, where part-time officers are appointed, and other such work. She also generally does a certain amount of voluntary work on that most pernicious system of giving her services in order to get known. It ...
— Women Workers in Seven Professions • Edith J. Morley

... for vocational training is equally urgent. Widespread vocational training will democratize the education of the country: (1) by recognizing different tastes and abilities, and by giving an equal opportunity to all to prepare for their lifework; (2) by extending education through part-time and evening instruction to those who are at work in the shop or on the farm." Report of the Commission on National Aid to ...
— The Trade Union Woman • Alice Henry

... their crossbows in their hands. At the closer range they saw that the roofs and arches were the outer remains of a system of natural caves that went back into the valley's walls. The green vegetation grew wherever the roofs gave part-time shade, consisting mainly of a holly-leafed bush with purple flowers and a tall plant ...
— Space Prison • Tom Godwin



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