FTE
See also: fte
English
Noun
FTE (plural FTEs)
- (economics) Initialism of full-time equivalent.
- 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:
- 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.
- (economics) Initialism of full-time employee.
- 2025 November 7, Jim Dougherty, quotee, “The Sierra Club Embraced Social Justice. Then It Tore Itself Apart.”, in The New York Times[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
- “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
FTE
- (networking) Initialism of Fault Tolerant Ethernet, a proprietary protocol created by Honeywell.