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)

• "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."