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job

Parf of speech: Verb, OED Year: 1681, OED Evaluation: N/A

To do odd jobs or pieces of work; to do piecework. Also with around, about.

ExampleMeaning
... and um their bass player has been just sort-of doing a lot of jobbing, just like playing random jobs, like s-- like just playing in- in bands with songwriters and all kinds of stuff like that.
To do odd jobs or pieces of work; to do piecework. Also with around, about.
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: Um and- and did three semesters there and then actually s-- jobbed out. I had a j-- I had- was offered a job in my field. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: So I didn't go back to school for my last semester. I thought I'm going to learn more on the job and- Interviewer: Mm. Speaker: Get paid for it than- um-
To do odd jobs or pieces of work; to do piecework. Also with around, about.
ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: Then where did you go? Speaker: Well I went to other camps then after I knew how to work, you might say, real hard. And I had no problem at all. I jobbed on my own, I took my own horses and I- I contracted for other jobbers and- for a couple of years, and then I got a chance to go in on my own. And I worked for myself and I had an easy life then.
To do odd jobs or pieces of work; to do piecework. Also with around, about.