part-time

Definition of part-timenext

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Recent Examples of part-time These improvements will allow the Landscape Recovery Center, which will have five full-time and four part-time staff members, to host volunteers interested in caring for habitat, supporting the plant nursery or working in local outreach or on community science. Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2026 Instead, he's been working part-time at the front desk of a local tennis center and stringing rackets on the side, trying somehow to support his family of five on $15 an hour without health insurance. CBS News, 12 Mar. 2026 And while union drama was an undercurrent of Schultz’s third tenure, in particular, Starbucks was still one of the first companies to provide comprehensive health care to part-time employees, starting in 1988. Sydney Lake, Fortune, 12 Mar. 2026 Underemployment refers to working in a role that underutilizes your skills, usually at a lower wage or in a part-time position. Ryley Amond, CNBC, 11 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for part-time
Recent Examples of Synonyms for part-time
weekend
Adjective
  • Vittert, an ex-weekend anchor at Fox News, holds down the 7 p.m. hour, followed by Cuomo, followed by Abrams (who still holds the post of chief legal analyst at ABC News as well).
    Paul Farhi, Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Fyre Festival was supposed to be an elaborate, weekend-long music festival in 2017, but its meltdown went viral on social media, as attendees documented makeshift tents and meager food offerings.
    Stephen Kalin, WSJ, 21 Nov. 2022

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“Part-time.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/part-time. Accessed 18 Mar. 2026.

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