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day job

day job noun: one's principal job; one's regular means of income.

Noun

day job (plural day jobs)

  1. One's principal job; one's regular means of income.

day job meaning in Hindi

day job in Hindi

day job, livelihood
रोज़ी rozī

Antonyms of day job

Forms of day job

pluralday jobs
alternative formdayjob
alternative formday-job

Origin of day job

From day + job, reflecting the archetypal form: one's job during the daytime, as contrasted with a second job that one works at night, on the night shift or graveyard shift.

Words formed from day job

Questions about day job

What does day job mean?
Day job means one's principal job; one's regular means of income.
What is day job in Hindi?
Day job in Hindi is रोज़ी (rozī). See Day job meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is day job?
Day job is a noun.
What is the plural of day job?
The plural of day job is day jobs.

Words near day job in the dictionary

  1. day hand
  2. day in and day out
  3. day in court
  4. day in the sun
  5. day in, day out
  6. day job
  7. day jobs
  8. day labor
  9. day laborer
  10. day laborers
  11. day labourer

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Adapted from Wiktionary: day job (page history and authors); रोज़ी (Hindi) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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