odd-job

[ od-job ]

/ ˈɒdˌdʒɒb /

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verb (used without object), odd-jobbed, odd-job·bing.

to work at a series of unrelated or unspecialized jobs, often of a low-paying or menial nature.

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Origin of odd-job

First recorded in 1855–60

OTHER WORDS FROM odd-job

odd jobber, odd-jobber, noun

Words nearby odd-job

odd couple, odd-even check, Odd Fellow, oddish, oddity, odd-job, odd-jobman, odd lot, odd-lotter, odd-man, odd man out

How to use odd-job 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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That officer fretting about his “stance,” we learn, is plagued by PTSD that cripples him both on the job and at home.
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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.
Solomon and Solomonic Literature|Moncure Daniel Conway
Do you know, Monsieur, that just as we were coming into Moulins, we remarked your odd-looking cabriolet de poste.
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He heard himself saying lightly, though with apparent lack of interest: 'How curious, Lettice, how very odd!
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There is an odd triangular-shaped hill that rises on one side very boldly and abruptly, called the Fox's Head.
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