odd-job
Americanverb (used without object)
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Origin of odd-job
First recorded in 1855–60
Example Sentences
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To pay the family’s bills, his wife took in odd-job sewing work.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026
The Corbett Hotel's odd-job boy Alan Finlay, then 13, greeted the superstars as they arrived.
From BBC • May 26, 2025
Panting heavily after digging the grave, shaking his head in dismay, local locksmith and odd-job man Urii Churachenko bent down and placed two cigarettes in the earth as a token for his friend.
From Reuters • Apr. 5, 2022
On Monday the odd-job street footballers of Panama will kick off their first ever World Cup, by the Black Sea.
From The Guardian • Jun. 13, 2018
Mr. Magnet and Toupee had gone to stare at the monoplane; they were presently joined by the odd-job man in an interrogative mood.
From Marriage by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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