part time

1. 1.

   involving less than the standard or customary time for an activity

   “part-time employees”

   “a part-time job”

   Synonymspart-time

   Similarhalf-timeirregularodd-jobunderemployed

Questions about part time

What does part time mean?

part time means "involving less than the standard or customary time for an activity".

What is another word for part time?

Close synonyms include part-time. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is part time a common word?

part time is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.