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Definition of "job-work" []

  • Work done by the job instead of by the day; work done to order, or to fulfil an engagement. (noun)
  • In printing, specifically, a class of miscellaneous work, generally requiring display or ornamentation. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

Use "job-work" in a sentence
  • "Lot of stuff to digest . . . but now I have job-work to do."
  • "He continued therefore his usual job-work for the booksellers, writing introductions, prefaces, and head and tail pieces for new works; revising, touching up, and modifying travels and voyages; making compilations of prose and poetry, and “building books,” as he sportively termed it."
  • "And forthwith he and the other entered into a disquisition about the job-work."