odd job
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.39 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A spell of temporary employment.
noun
A task of an incidental, unspecialized nature.
verb
Alternative form of odd-job.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "On the other hand, if the decedent wanted to be a veterinarian but had never worked full time, worked odd jobs, had an English degree, and had worked as a receptionist at the veterinarian's office, it might be different."
- "Most of the usual things that average people sought seem to come his way anyway, for example, money when he needed it, where he'd take an odd job until he earned enough to get by for a while and then he'd hit the road again."
- "I like doing odd jobs around the house."
- "He moved all over the States, without a cent, picking up any odd job he could get."
- "For the next two weeks I bided my time, sleeping at night on an army-issue metal cot in a small, bare room separate from the other men; working during the day at whatever odd job the duty officer saw fit to hand out."