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oddjob

oddjob is the alternative form of odd job.

oddjob is the alternative form 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.

Meaning of odd-job

Verb

odd-job (third-person singular simple present odd-jobs, present participle odd-jobbing, simple past and past participle odd-jobbed)

  1. (intransitive) To work by taking a variety of temporary jobs.
    • Both boys and girls were expected to 'odd-job' to bring in extra funds.2002, Lionel Rose, The Erosion of Childhood: Childhood in Britain 1860-1918, →ISBN
  2. (rare, transitive) To perform odd or temporary jobs for someone.

Forms of oddjob

Noun
pluraloddjobs
Verb
third-person singular presentoddjobs
present participleoddjobbing
past participleoddjobbed
pastoddjobbed

Questions about oddjob

What is oddjob the alternative form of?
Oddjob is the alternative form of odd job.

Words near oddjob in the dictionary

  1. odditorium
  2. odditoriums
  3. oddity
  4. oddity effect
  5. oddity effects
  6. oddjob
  7. oddjobbed
  8. oddjobbing
  9. oddjobs
  10. oddlike
  11. oddling

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Adapted from Wiktionary: oddjob (page history and authors); odd job (page history and authors); odd-job (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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