part-time employment
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpart-timeandemployment
These words are often used together. Click on the links below to explore the meanings. Or,see other collocations withemployment.
part-time
adverb
adjective
uk/ˌpɑːtˈtaɪm/us/ˌpɑːrtˈtaɪm/
If you work part-time or do part-time work, you work for only some of the day or ...
See more atpart-time
employment
noun[U]
uk/ɪmˈplɔɪ.mənt/us/ɪmˈplɔɪ.mənt/
the fact of someone being paid to work for a company ...
See more atemployment
(Definition ofpart-timeandemploymentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofpart-time employment
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
Part-timeemployment, argues the author, is the most appropriate way to engineer, first, an extension to working lives and, secondly, a gradual retirement transition.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Fourteen patients were either inpart-timeemployment(4) or were pursuing careers (10).
From theCambridge English Corpus
This reflects previouspart-timeemploymentwhich he was asked to leave because of his attitude, and no recent record of any employment.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The lower production loss for women reflects a higherpart-timeemployment.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Especially needed are more studies of children as they make transitions into increasingly complex and differentiated settings, such secondary school orpart-timeemployment.
From theCambridge English Corpus
This removes the need for re-location and also allows students in year 1 to maintainpart-timeemployment.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Most had one or two children, were in full- orpart-timeemployment, and had a partner who was employed.
From theCambridge English Corpus
This feature was particularly beneficial to women, enabling years of childrearing orpart-timeemploymentto be disregarded.
From theCambridge English Corpus
A higher proportion of those with caring responsibilities were inpart-timeemployment(31 per cent as compared with the average of 24 per cent).
From theCambridge English Corpus
The authors add that it 'constitutes an important source ofpart-timeemploymentfor rural poor'.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The impact ofpart-timeemploymentis interesting - its impact on women is 0.25 and statistically significant.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Rates of femalepart-timeemploymentremain different, as we saw above, but are much less so today than in the 1980s.
From theCambridge English Corpus
For example, most people express a preference for full-time employment overpart-timeemployment.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The models for women used three dichotomous variables : whether a person was in paid work, in full-time employment, or inpart-timeemployment.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Another feature of their economies is the low rate ofpart-timeemployment.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The authors document a rise inpart-timeemployment, a dramatic increase in employment in the service sector, and a rapid entry of women into the workforce.
From theCambridge English Corpus
New identities are being constructed by some young people around highly provisional, contingent and ephemeral mixes of studentship andpart-timeemployment.
From theCambridge English Corpus
To eliminate effects ofpart-timeemployment, we scaled the last year of known salary history to its full-time equivalent so that all backcasted years were based on full-time work.
From theCambridge English Corpus
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
Want to learn more?
Go to the definition ofpart-time
Go to the definition ofemployment
See other collocations withemployment