1
: employed for or involving full time
full-time employees
full-time work
2
: devoting one's full attention and energies to something
a full-time gambler
full-time
adverb
: the amount of time considered the normal or standard amount for working during a given period
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Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2026
The average cost of full-time child care for a family with an infant and a 4-year-old amounts to $28,000, according to advocacy group Child Care Aware of America.
—Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 22 Jan. 2026
For some parents, forced into becoming full-time learning monitors, homeschooling began to look like the more honest option.
—The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 22 Jan. 2026
While the entire zero-textbook-cost conversion process is not without its challenges (since many of us instructors working on these projects still have full-time teaching duties to complete), this work is necessary.
—Austin Barraza, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Jan. 2026
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Adjective
Patterson, who hasn’t been a full-time coach since 2021, would come to USC just weeks after being voted into the College Football Hall of Fame on his first ballot.
—Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2026
The average cost of full-time child care for a family with an infant and a 4-year-old amounts to $28,000, according to advocacy group Child Care Aware of America.
—Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 22 Jan. 2026
For some parents, forced into becoming full-time learning monitors, homeschooling began to look like the more honest option.
—The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 22 Jan. 2026
While the entire zero-textbook-cost conversion process is not without its challenges (since many of us instructors working on these projects still have full-time teaching duties to complete), this work is necessary.
—Austin Barraza, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Jan. 2026
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“Full-time.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/full-time. Accessed 25 Jan. 2026.
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