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Meanings of odd-job in English

Odd-job.

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Usage of odd-job in English
1
These days he is an odd-job man, emptying bins and cleaning up.
The Guardian
2
I took on the work of odd-job man at 65 Rue des Pyramides.
Castles in the Air
3
Evidently the old odd-job man, judging from his past and present experience, thought
Self-Raised; Or, From the Depths
4
And Janet had a nephew, a cross-eyed nephew, who was an odd-job man.
Little Miss By-The-Day
5
The odd-job man departed, bearing his heaving bag at arm's length.
Uneasy Money
6
Or the very LA queue of Mexican odd-job men, patiently waiting outside hardware stores for work.
Radio NZ
7
I'm an odd-job man, and it's good there.
To the end of the land
8
The odd-job man came out of his trance.
Uneasy Money
9
The poor, old odd-job man looked up with a humorous twinkle in his eye, as he replied:
Self-Raised; Or, From the Depths
10
Self-described arts odd-job man Hamish Keith talks about the individuals, writers and thinkers who have influenced him.
Radio NZ
11
This boy, having nobody to discuss anybody with, presumably sat in solitary meditation, brooding on the odd-job man.
Something New
12
Hence the odd-job of stars and leftovers in red shirts for this 0-0 draw.
The Guardian
13
The odd-job man endorsed this.
Uneasy Money
14
Papi Chulo is a comedy-drama about the relationship between a stressed-out TV weatherman and a middle-aged Mexican odd-job man.
Radio NZ
15
And Papi Chulo, a comedy-drama about the relationship between a stressed-out TV weatherman and a middle-aged Mexican odd-job man.
Radio NZ
16
She should have hired an odd-job man from the village, Rowe decided as she lifted a heavy stack of boxes.
Dark dreamer: a dark vista romance