job shop

noun

1. an agency or plant that supplies technical personnel or performs a specific function in a manufacturing process, usually on short-term temporary contracts.

Other Word Forms

• job shopper noun

Example Sentences

Nursing home workers may no longer be able to “job shop” as easily to find employment where vaccines are not mandated.

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Haas began focusing on the neglected job shop market, offering very short delivery times, superior parts and service, and lower costs, compared with other American machine tool makers.

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But if delivery drivers and checkout clerks start to look for and find jobs on the site, LinkedIn will have taken a step towards becoming a much broader job shop.

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“You’d call it a small industrial job shop.”

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Steve runs a fifty person steel pipe fabrication job shop. 

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