Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To share the responsibility for one job in alternation with one or more part-time workers.
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Examples
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Redknapp ruled out the possibility of taking the England role in a part-time capacity, describing it as "impossible", though he does believe that a job-share could work in the short term.
Job share for Euro 2012 could work, says Tottenham's Harry Redknapp 2012
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Turkey would not countenance a similar job-share over the final season of his current contract.
Guus Hiddink will consider 'concrete offer' if Chelsea come calling 2011
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The truth is the new manager needs all the time there is to find a way through this maze of politics but Bernstein, by his own admission, had not even entertained the idea that Capello's successor could be appointed, even as a job-share, in time for the Holland game on 29 February.
FA insists that Harry Redknapp will not be the only candidate 2012
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"I know what I would do if I was running a FTSE 100 company: I'd get two women in as directors to job-share at 30 hours a week instead of one man killing himself doing 60 hours," said Siobhan Freegard, who set up and runs the Netmums website.
Women told to forget about babies if they want to scale career heights 2010
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Rocco, the mother of a three-year-old son, says, "The job-share arrangement enables me to be 100% program manager on the days I'm at work, and 100% mommy on the days I am home."
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• Can you or your partner work part-time or job-share?
Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn Penny Simkin 2010
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Can you or your partner work part-time or job-share?
Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn Penny Simkin 2010
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Sometimes this produces rapid and even material benefits: One patient, a financial analyst, talked to her colleague about impending cutbacks; they forestalled a layoff by offering their supervisor a job-share alternative.
James S. Gordon: How to Deal with Stress in the Recession 2009
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I often have to refer to the lady I job-share with.
Word Fugitives 2005
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Now Patricia L. Sierzant, of Malvern, Pennsylvania, writes, I job-share a position.
Word Fugitives 2005
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