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full-time equivalent en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. The result of a calculation to estimate the effective size of a workforce that may include part-time workers.
    • We estimate our work-from-home employees to be 30% of our total full-time equivalents.
    • 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:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
full-time equivalents Number=Plur lexicographic
FTE Abbr=Yes lexicographic