jobbing
- noun
- /ˈdʒɑːbɪŋ/
- UK
:
trabajos ocasionales
- After losing her full-time job, she started jobbing as a decorator, helping friends with home improvements.
- jobbing gardener
Examples
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The neighborhood is full of jobbing contractors who offer their services for minor renovations and repairs.
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My mom Salt did whatever odd jobs, but my dad was always like if you want something, you have to earn it.
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The first thing that is, you know, one of the suggested methods to hand jobbing is called the cigar roller.
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After that, we made do with a jobbing gardener, and I had a colored woman in twice a week for the floors and heavy cleaning.
Fiction book (1993) -
The next morning, Inkululeko was busy gathering up the rubbish the jobbing gardener had swept under the shrubs.
Fiction book (1993) -
The path to the kaya had been neatly edge-trimmed in a way the jobbing gardener never attempted.
Fiction book (1993) -
She enjoyed jobbing as a freelance writer, taking on various small projects for different clients.
Synonyms
1
3.7
A small job done in free time to earn extra money
A casual job people do to earn extra money that they often do not declare
How Regular
8
3.0
2
5.3
1
3.0
- UK
- UK
25
4.2
8
5.6
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
A helpful way to remember jobbing is to think of job as a 'piece of work' and -ing as 'doing', so jobbing is the act of doing many small tasks for different people. That's why people say they are 'jobbing' when they do short, casual jobs instead of full-time work.