Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Work done by the job instead of by the day; work done to order, or to fulfil an engagement.
- noun In printing, specifically, a class of miscellaneous work, generally requiring display or ornamentation.
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Examples
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Lot of stuff to digest . . . but now I have job-work to do.
Live-Read-Blog: The Other Lands – Book Three, Song of Souls | Spontaneous ∂erivation 2009
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And forthwith he and the other entered into a disquisition about the job-work.
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He continued therefore his usual job-work for the booksellers, writing introductions, prefaces, and head and tail pieces for new works; revising, touching up, and modifying travels and voyages; making compilations of prose and poetry, and “building books,” as he sportively termed it.
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Plus, I have a lot of job-work today, and I just found out my boss will be back next Monday a week earlier than any of us expected, so it'll take me awhile to adjust...
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Through all the great pressure of job-work lately, I never before failed in a promise of the kind ..
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He remarked that he had not been able to introduce job-work among his people.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society
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He helped the old man milk, and had tinkered up the broken kitchen-table, and put in half a dozen window-panes, and was intimate with all the boarders; could give the masons the prices of job-work at the East, and put Stoll the carpenter on the idea of contract houses, out of which he afterward made a fortune.
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It is a curious fact, however, that the pay for job-work has decreased very decidedly.
A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France William Duthie
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The colloquial phrase _job-work_ has perplexed, and very excusably, the worthy Belgian, and he has drawn from a very harmless expression a terrible significance.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 Various
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Everyone writes items, all of us get advertising and job-work when it comes our way, and when one of us writes anything particularly good, it is marked for the editorial page.
In Our Town William Allen White 1906
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