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Job's-news

Job's-news is the alternative form of Job's news.

Meaning of Job's news

Noun

Job's news (uncountable)

  1. Very bad news.
    • What mystery is in the wind?—Hark! a human voice reporting articulately the Job’s-news: Necker, People’s Minister, Saviour of France, is dismissed.1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter IV, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume I (The Bastille), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book V (The Third Estate)

Questions about Job's-news

What is Job's-news the alternative form of?
Job's-news is the alternative form of Job's news.

Words near Job's-news in the dictionary

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  5. Job's tears
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  8. Job's-posts
  9. job-hop
  10. job-hopped
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Adapted from Wiktionary: Job's-news (page history and authors); Job's news (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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