"full-time job" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: full-time jobs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} full-time job (plural full-time jobs)
  1. (idiomatic) An activity that consumes a great deal of time. Tags: idiomatic
    Sense id: en-full-time_job-en-noun-v~WVNEKV Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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          "text": "Keeping up with the current state of the PC component market is a full-time job."
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          "ref": "2013, Viviane Mahieux, Urban Chroniclers in Modern Latin America, p. 172",
          "text": "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."
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        "(idiomatic) An activity that consumes a great deal of time."
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