FTE

plural FTEs

1. abbreviationinitialismeconomicsInitialism of full-time equivalent.

   Many of those are tied to human labour, from the per-hour fees of professional services firms to the per-seat subscriptions of software companies and the “full-time equivalents” (FTEs) that advertising agencies use to calculate fees.

   2026 April 4, Richard Waters, “AI disruption: who will get hit?”, in FT Weekend (Big Read section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 5

2. abbreviationinitialismeconomicsInitialism of full-time employee.

   “I said, ‘We have two F.T.E.s devoted to Trump’s war on the Arctic refuge, and we have 108 going to D.E.I., and I don’t think we have our priorities straight,’” Mr. Dougherty said, using the acronyms for “full-time employees” and “diversity, equity and inclusion.”

   2025 November 7, Jim Dougherty, quotee, “The Sierra Club Embraced Social Justice. Then It Tore Itself Apart.”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC

1. abbreviationinitialismcomputingInitialism of Fault Tolerant Ethernet, a proprietary protocol created by Honeywell.