to land a job
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3.3
- phrasal verb
:
conseguir un trabajo
- Jessica hopes to land a job in the journalism field after college, but for now, she is looking.
Now how can like everyday Joe Schmo use it to land a job?
- Now how can like everyday Joe Schmo use it to land a job?
- You were hoping that maybe prospective employers would would find out in in and you would then land a job.
Examples
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But eventually, I landed a job for Dr. Glickenstein.
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I’ll let you know if I land a job.
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"Her dream is to land a job in a philosophy department over here.
Fiction book (1999) -
Almost landed a job with the Defense Department, actually.
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Finally, she landed a job as a contract player for a movie studio.
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I landed a job in a show today.
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So when I got to the city, I landed a job as an office manager.
Blog text (27) -
I took some time off, traveled, and when I came back, landed a job in publishing.
Blog text (5) -
I had finally landed a job in my field: assistant professor of anthropology at Denver University.
Fiction book (1990) -
After months of searching, she finally landed a job as a marketing coordinator at a top firm.
Synonyms
22
1.9
Find and start working in a different job
3
4.7
To get and make sure of a job, deal, or opportunity
Antonyms
How Successful
Surface Forms
Morphology
The sense 'to obtain a job' is a metaphorical extension of 'land' (to arrive or secure) applied to a target (a job), so the connection is partly transparent but relies on a less basic sense of 'land' that many B1 learners may not know. Because the meaning is predictable only if the learner recognizes this extended use (common in collocations like 'land a contract' or 'land an interview'), it is not fully compositional.
Etymology
Land a job comes from the old sense of land, meaning to bring a catch to shore, like when fishermen land a big fish. That image of catching and bringing something in is why land a job now means 'to get a job', especially one that is hard to get.