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 Dictionary entry overview: What does full-time mean? 

• FULL-TIME (adjective)
  The adjective FULL-TIME has 1 sense:

1. for the entire time appropriate to an activity

  Familiarity information: FULL-TIME used as an adjective is very rare.

• FULL-TIME (adverb)
  The adverb FULL-TIME has 1 sense:

1. for the standard number of hours

  Familiarity information: FULL-TIME used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FULL-TIME (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

For the entire time appropriate to an activity

Context example:

a full-time job

Similar:

regular (officially full-time)

Antonym:

part-time (involving less than the standard or customary time for an activity)

• FULL-TIME (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

For the standard number of hours

Context example:

she works full-time

Antonym:

half-time (for less than the standard number of hours)

 Context examples 

Indicates that a person has received a degree for successful completion of a program of studies that normally requires at least 4-5 years of full-time equivalent college-level work.

(Bachelor's Degree Completion, NCI Thesaurus)

A code qualifying the employment in various ways, such as, full-time vs. part time, etc.

(Employee Job Class, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

The Postdoctoral Intramural Research Awards Program provides new investigators with advanced training and an opportunity to conduct full-time research in a laboratory environment that is compatible with the interests of the participant.

(Intramural Research Training Award, NCI Thesaurus)

In most universities, the degree is conferred upon a student after four years of full-time study (120 credit hours) in one or more areas of business concentrations.

(Bachelor of Business Administration, NCI Thesaurus)

Unlike their relatives the crocodiles, alligators don't have salt glands and therefore can't survive full-time in salt water.

(Alligators, rulers of the swamps, link marine and freshwater ecosystems, NSF)

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) awards NRSA individual postdoctoral fellowships (F32) to the most promising applicants to support full-time research training related to the mission of the NIH awarding components.

(Individual National Research Service Award, NCI Thesaurus)

They may need help with dressing, bathing, eating, or using the bathroom, but they don't need full-time nursing care.

(Assisted Living, Administration on Aging)

The Master's Degree is an award that requires the successful completion of a program of study of at least the full-time equivalent of 1 but not more than two academic years of work beyond the bachelor's degree.

(Master's Degree, NCI Thesaurus)

If you are negotiating company benefits, you may be discussing your fee or bonus, and if you will be a full-time employee, the health care your employer might offer, vacation time, and other perks.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Bachelor's degree is an award (baccalaureate or equivalent degree, as determined by the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Education) conferred by a college, university, or other postsecondary education institution as official recognition for the successful completion of a program of studies, that normally requires at least four years of full-time equivalent college-level work.

(Bachelor's Degree, NCI Thesaurus)