| Acronym | Definition |
|---|
| FTE | Full-Time Equivalent |
| FTE | First Time Ever |
| FTE | For the Enterprise (SQL) |
| FTE | Foundation for Teaching Economics |
| FTE | Folding Text Editor (software) |
| FTE | Flux Transfer Event |
| FTE | Failure to Enroll |
| FTE | Florida's Turnpike Enterprise |
| FTE | Flight Test Engineer |
| FTE | Failure to Eject (firearms) |
| FTE | Flight Technical Error |
| FTE | Failure to Extract (firearms) |
| FTE | Fitted Target Efficacy (luminaire performance; US Department of Energy) |
| FTE | Fault Tolerant Ethernet |
| FTE | Flow-Through Entity |
| FTE | Flight Training Europe (commercial flying school) |
| FTE | Factory Test Equipment |
| FTE | First Unit Equipped |
| FTE | Full Trucker Effect (song and trucker slang) |
| FTE | Forschung Und Technische Entwicklung (German: research and technological development) |
| FTE | For the Emperor (Warhammer 40k gaming) |
| FTE | Florida Tomato Exchange |
| FTE | Field Test Engineer |
| FTE | Fully Taxable Equivalent/Equivalency |
| FTE | Facilities, Terminals, and Equipment |
| FTE | Fiberoptic Test Equipment |
| FTE | Frame Timing Estimation |
| FTE | Firearms Training Elective (AAFC) |
| FTE | Free Time Expiry (freight containers) |
| FTE | Functional-Technical Expert |
| FTE | Female Threaded End (pipe design) |
| FTE | Free Thyroxine Equivalent (thyroid function marker) |
| FTE | Forwarding Time Expired (US Postal Service) |
| FTE | Financial Transaction Executive (Perot Systems) |
| FTE | Full Time Enrollment |
| FTE | Fund for Theological Education |
| FTE | Full-Time Effort |
| FTE | Berkeley Federation of Teachers (trade union; Berkeley, CA) |
| FTE | Full-Time Equivalent Position |
| FTE | Funniest Thing Ever |
| FTE | Full Time Engineer |
| FTE | Foundation for Tolerance Education (Johannesburg, South Africa) |
| FTE | Foundation for Thought and Ethics |
| FTE | Full-Time Equivalency |
| FTE | First Time Exhibitor (trade shows) |
| FTE | Full Time Employment |
| FTE | Full-Time Employee |