job work

miscellaneous printing work, as distinguished from books, periodicals, etc.

work done by the job.

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Partout le travail est le métier de job (job-work) comme disent les Anglais—un métier à mourir sur le fumier.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844|Various
I wasn't engaged, shir—it was only job-work I was able to do—the health wasn't gud wid me.
Willy Reilly|William Carleton
And forthwith he and the other entered into a disquisition about the job-work.
Wild Wales|George Borrow
Brother Warner, however, was to realize fifteen per cent from all the job-work he should procure.
Birth of a Reformation|Andrew Byers

These gentlemen receive large quantities of job-work, which, as is well known, they execute in a superior manner.
The History of Louisville, from the Earliest Settlement till the Year 1852|Ben Casseday