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Part-time

adjective

Involving less than the standard or customary time for an activity. Synonym: parttime. "A part-time job"

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... secondary education La Salle's Conduct of Schools, first published in 1720, was the ratio studiorum of his order. His work marks the real beginning of free primary instruction in the vernacular in France. In addition to elementary schools, a few of what we should call part-time continuation schools were organized for children engaged in commerce and industry. Realizing better than the Jesuits the need for well-trained rather than highly educated teachers for little children, and unable to supply members to meet the outside calls for schools, La Salle organized ...

— THE HISTORY OF EDUCATION • ELLWOOD P. CUBBERLEY

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Words linked to "Part-time" : half-time, irregular, full-time, odd-job, underemployed, temporary