job lot
Americannoun
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a large, often assorted quantity of goods sold or handled as a single transaction.
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a miscellaneous quantity; a quantity of odds and ends.
noun
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a miscellaneous collection of articles sold as a lot
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a collection of cheap or trivial items
Etymology
Origin of job lot
First recorded in 1850–55
Example Sentences
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The 58-year-old said he bought a selection of items from a job lot which included the buttons from Bamfords Auctioneers in Spondon, Derby in July.
From BBC ● Dec. 19, 2025
Toilets, taps, basins and baths make up the Crapper cluster, with the owner hoping someone will be "en suite" enough to buy it as a job lot, lest the lovely lavs be split up.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2024
On the issue of facultative reinsurance, whereby it insures bundles of risk in a job lot, Swiss Re said it expected to finalise a policy for the oil and gas sector in 2023.
From Reuters ● Mar. 17, 2022
The film entered the archives 34 years ago, part of a job lot from a Soho film lab that had gone out of business.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 3, 2015
Accordin' to that," said Conrad, "the whole crowd ought to have a dizzy good time, for they're about as fine a job lot of lonesomes as I ever struck.
From Solomon Crow's Christmas Pockets and Other Tales by Ruth McEnery Stuart
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