full-time occupation

collocation in English

meaningsoffull-timeandoccupation

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full-time
adjective
adverb
uk
/ˌfʊlˈtaɪm/
us
/ˌfʊlˈtaɪm/
(of work or education) done for the whole of a ...
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occupation
noun
uk
/ˌɒk.jəˈpeɪ.ʃən/
us
/ˌɑː.kjəˈpeɪ.ʃən/
a ...
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(Definition offull-timeandoccupationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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His enemies found his hostility a draining,full-timeoccupationwhich could often ruin the strongest of characters.
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The majority of these farmers indicated farming as theirfull-timeoccupation(68%) and a third (32%) indicated farming as a part-time occupation (n = 63).
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He can further consider these issues when he returns to hisfull-timeoccupationin the railway industry.
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No president or vice-president has otherfull-timeoccupation.
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The people who got promoted were those who had nofull-timeoccupation, and who, therefore, had more time to devote to the service.
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In the days when retailing was predominantly afull-timeoccupationthat restriction had some point.
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Will it be spare-time employment for persons already employed, or will it be afull-timeoccupationduring the period?
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It deals with what is afull-timeoccupation.
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One has to go much further than that and have both an occupation for the moment and an intention of continuingfull-timeoccupation.
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How is the intention to remain infull-timeoccupationto be ascertained?
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In myfull-timeoccupationas a journalist it was clear to me that information and access to it was the stock-in-trade of that profession.
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His is a completely and absolutelyfull-timeoccupation, and it involves very considerable expenses.
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It certainly provides afull-timeoccupationfor some journalists.
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For the chairman, who is usually expected to produce the first draft of the whole report himself, inevitably it becomes almost afull-timeoccupation.
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And must he make of the croft afull-timeoccupation?
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For such a person it has become almost a full-time hobby, if not afull-timeoccupation.
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Such will be the heavy nature of duties when serving on a quango that it will have to be regarded as afull-timeoccupation.
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Because youth services mean so much to them, some volunteers spend so much time doing this work that it is almost afull-timeoccupation.
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The preparation of such a set of drawings would be afull-timeoccupationfor a qualified draughtsman for up to a year.
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