full-time job

noun

An activity that consumes a great deal of time.

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Meanings

nounfull-time job (plural full-time jobs)

plural full-time jobs

  1. idiomaticAn activity that consumes a great deal of time.

    Keeping up with the current state of the PC component market is a full-time job.

    2005, Robert Bruce Thompson, Barbara Fritchman Thompson, PC Hardware Buyer's Guide: Choosing the Perfect Components, p. ix
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    Keeping up with the city's offerings is a full-time job, claims Novo, and one can escape from its excessive stimuli only if one is sick or in the countryside.

    2013, Viviane Mahieux, Urban Chroniclers in Modern Latin America, page 172
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