full-time job

Forty weekly hours

A full-time job is employment requiring the standard maximum working hours—typically 35 to 40 hours per week, though this varies by country and industry.

Full-time work usually comes with benefits like health insurance and paid leave that part-time positions lack.

Figuratively, anything demanding constant attention becomes a full-time job: Keeping up with his lies is a full-time job.

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steady paycheck · forty hours · paycheck · benefits · health insurance · commute · office · corner office · pension · cubicle · steady · grind · hustle · desk · weekdays · healthcare · paid vacation · promotion

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Opposites
hours/time commitment

full-time jobpart-time job

Work fewer than standard hours

part-time work · part-time employment · casual work · reduced hours · job share

employment structure

full-time jobfreelance work

Self-directed paid projects

gig work · freelancing · contract work · temporary employment · casual employment

activity status

full-time jobunemployment

Being without paid work

joblessness · retirement · not working · leisure · idleness

Family

full, time, fully, fullness, fuller, fullest, times, timed, timing

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