专职

zhuān zhí · HSK 7

assigned full time to a task

💼 专 specialized + 职 job = a job you do exclusively, i.e. full-time

专 carries the sense of focused or exclusive (as in 专门 specialized); 职 means post or duty (as in 职业 occupation). Glued together they name a role assigned to one person full time, not a side task.

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