Vollzeit

full-time

noun FOL-tsait Rare

Origin: literally full-time

Usage Note

Vollzeit denotes full-time employment, opposed to Teilzeit (part-time). It usually appears without an article in adverbial use, as in Vollzeit arbeiten (to work full-time), or attributively in Vollzeitstelle (full-time post). Rarely pluralised; treated as a singular mass concept.

Examples

"Sie arbeitet seit Januar wieder in Vollzeit."

Natural Translation

She has been working full-time again since January.

Literal Translation

She works since January again in full-time.

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