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odd jobbing

odd jobbing is the present participle and gerund of odd job.

Meaning of odd job

Noun

odd job (plural odd jobs)

  1. A spell of temporary employment.
    • They believe that when a partnership works as well as theirs has, you shouldn't analyze it too much. Success came in the midforties when Paramount hired them for the musical equivalent of odd jobs.2003, Sam Staggs, Close-up on Sunset Boulevard, →ISBN
  2. A task of an incidental, unspecialized nature.
    • I like doing odd jobs around the house.

Questions about odd jobbing

What is odd jobbing the present participle and gerund of?
Odd jobbing is the present participle and gerund of odd job.

Words near odd jobbing in the dictionary

  1. odd fish
  2. odd function
  3. odd functions
  4. odd job
  5. odd jobbed
  6. odd jobbing
  7. odd jobs
  8. odd lot
  9. odd lots
  10. odd lotter
  11. odd lotters

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