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FTE

noun FTEs

  1. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of full-time equivalent 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.
  2. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of full-time employee “I said, ‘We have two F.T.E.s devoted to Trump’s war on the Arctic refuge, and we have 108 going to D.E.I., and I don’t think we have our priorities straight,’” Mr. Dougherty said, using the acronyms for “full-time employees” and “diversity, equity and inclusion.”

proper noun

  1. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Fault Tolerant Ethernet, a proprietary protocol created by Honeywell.

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@misc{fte_2026,
  title = {FTE},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/fte},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}