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odd jobs

odd jobs is the plural of odd job.

odd jobs is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 jobs

What is odd jobs the plural of?
Odd jobs is the plural of odd job.

Words near odd jobs in the dictionary

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

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