jack-of-all-trades
noun
a person who is adept at many different kinds of work.
jacks-of-all-trades
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pluralof jack-of-all-trades.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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One suggests generalists are jacks-of-all-trades but masters of none, meaning they can tolerate a wider range of conditions or food sources but aren't as dominant as a specialist in any specific niche.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 25, 2024
In other words, some yeasts are jacks-of-all-trades and masters of each.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 25, 2024
Before the professions of typesetters and pressmen split, most printers were jacks-of-all-trades, completing apprenticeships that required they learn every task in a printing office.
From Economist ● May 23, 2018
My real beef with the Mikes is not that they are “vanilla”, however, but that they are neither experts nor jacks-of-all-trades.
From Golf Digest ● May 17, 2017
For two days the two jacks-of-all-trades worked at many lines and with many materials before Stevens called a halt.
From Spacehounds of IPC by E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith
