flexitime

nounC1Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speech — time sits at #19Too rare in one of the two pools to compare — fewer than 20 uses in speech or in writing

Flexitime is a system letting staff choose their own start and finish. Work flexitime, a flexitime scheme, flexitime within core hours.

It usually keeps core hours when everybody must be present and lets the rest float. Americans spell it flextime, and the idea dates from the 1960s.

Definitions of flexitime

1nounflexitimeA system letting staff choose their own start and finish.C1
“Flexitime let her drop the children at school before starting.”

flexitime is a system.

Where it comes from

Middle English
tyme
English
time
English, today
flexitime

From flexi- + time. time comes from Middle English tyme. From Middle English tyme, time, from Old English tīma (“time, period, space of time, season, lifetime, fixed time, favorable time, opportunity”), from Proto-West Germanic tīmō, from Proto-Germanic tīmô (“time”), from Proto-Indo-European deh₂imō, from Proto-Indo-European deh₂y- (“to divide”). Related to tide. Not related to Latin tempus. 2

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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