- a period of time that is less than full time: Thirty-five hours a week is still considered part time.Abbreviations: PT, P/T
- employed, functioning, or working less than the customary or requisite number of hours: They had only enough money to hire a part-time clerk.
- lasting, requiring, or being in force only a part of the time: part-time employment;part-time jobs.
- on a part-time basis: to work part-time.
- for less than the entire time appropriate to an activity
- on a part-time basis
