gig
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3.7
- noun
- /ɡɪɡ/
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trabajo puntual
- After months of freelancing, I finally secured a gig editing for a major publication.
- paid gigs
- a speaking gig
It's they want us to all just be gig people who are doing gigs.
- It's they want us to all just be gig people who are doing gigs.
- What was your first paid gig with an athlete?
- I think I got my first gig about a year in.
- They all want the next job, the next gig, the next whatever it is.
- I think we're actually OK right now, because this security gig's not working out, right?
- It's restaurants, artists who work gig by gig.
- If you're not coming to play, you should get another gig to supplement your acting.
- Try to get consulting gigs for to leave that for creative projects.
- I'm going to hit you up and hire you for a gig better.
- I want to get when's my next gig beginning October.
- And so I took the gig was couch surfing at a friend's house.
Examples
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Listen, I'm gonna take the gig.
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What started as a two-month gig in March turned into a yearlong position this May.
Academic text (2002) -
I think I got my first gig about a year in.
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But every next gig became the most important.
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Yeah, not a bad gig, huh?
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What was your first paid gig with an athlete?
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Managing The Six had somehow become the hottest gig in town.
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You've been in the North only a week, and you have a gig already!
Fiction book (1993) -
"Nearly all of my freelance gigs are the result of knowing someone who knew someone."
Academic text (2009) -
I originally meant to keep the gig very part-time, but it soon overtook everything.
Academic text (2004)
Synonyms
1
3.7
A small job done in free time to earn extra money
Compounds
How Long
Surface Forms
Etymology
Gig for a short-term paid job grew from the musical meaning: people began using 'gig' for any small, one-time job, which is why we now call freelance tasks 'gigs'.