job-share

[ job-shair ]

/ ˈdʒɒbˌʃɛər /

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verb (used without object), job-shared, job-shar·ing.

to share the responsibility and duties of a single full-time job with one or more other employees.

noun Also job share .

an arrangement in which two or more employees share one full-time job.

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Origin of job-share

First recorded in 1975–80; job¹ + share¹

OTHER WORDS FROM job-share

job-sharer, noun

Words nearby job-share

Job's comforter, Job's comforters, job seeker, jobseeker's allowance, job setter, job-share, job sharing, job shop, Jobs, Steven, Job's syndrome, Job's-tears

How to use job-share in a sentence

Then add in all bored people, as well as people whose job it is to report on celebrities.
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Eric Garcetti succeeded Villaraigosa and has received high marks in his first year and a half on the job.
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“I love my job and I love my city and I am committed to the work here,” he said in a statement.
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It has nothing to do with the regulatory job he is nominated for.
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Elyon is the name of an ancient Phœnician god, slain by his son El, no doubt the “first-born of death” in Job xviii.
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Thus was the man left entirely to the devil, not even his life being reserved, as in the case of Job.
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The foster-child remained behind to share the hut of the political exile.
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Rent, the share of the land-owner, offered to the classicist a rather peculiar case.
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Murat, who had earnestly begged to be allowed to share the Austrian campaign of 1809, was delighted to serve in person.
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