job-hunt
Americanverb (used without object)
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Origin of job-hunt
First recorded in 1945–50
Example Sentences
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Ray is part of a team reporting on what the current crop of graduating seniors encounter as they job-hunt and contend with an AI revolution that’s overhauling the nature of work.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
“I will teach people a different way to job-hunt, and a different way to run their careers.”
From Forbes • Apr. 17, 2015
“All of my employers have found me through friends and colleagues from my past, so I haven’t had to job-hunt, per se.”
From New York Times • Jan. 16, 2015
His wife’s income was not enough to sustain both of them long-term, however, and he had to simultaneously job-hunt, causing him to identify more strongly as “unemployed” than as “homemaker.”
From Slate • Feb. 5, 2013
When afternoon approached, wearied by the resultless job-hunt and discouraged by his continued misfortune, he sank upon a bench in a city park to take a rest.
From The Trail of the Tramp by Livingston, Leon Ray
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