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单词 odd jobs
释义

job1 /job/

noun
  1. Any individual piece of work
  2. Any undertaking or employment done for payment or profit
  3. An occupation or post
  4. Someone's proper business or responsibility
  5. A task to be performed by an operating system (computing)
  6. A state of affairs (informal)
  7. An item or example of a specified kind (informal)
  8. A transaction in which private gain is sought under pretence of public service
  9. An end accomplished by intrigue or wirepulling
  10. A criminal enterprise, esp theft (informal)
  11. A surgical procedure to improve or enhance a part of the body (esp in compounds, such as nose job; informal)
  12. A hired horse or carriage (obsolete)
  13. A job lot
adjective
  1. Employed, hired or used by the job or for jobs
  2. Bought or sold lumped together
intransitive verb
  1. To do casual jobs
  2. To buy and sell, as a broker
  3. To practise jobbery
transitive verb
  1. To perform as a job
  2. To put or carry through by jobbery
  3. To deal in, as a broker
  4. To hire or let out (esp horses)
ORIGIN: Origin unknown

jobbˈer noun

  1. A person who jobs
  2. A person who buys and sells, as a broker
  3. A stock-jobber
  4. Someone who turns official actions to private advantage
  5. A person who employs unfair means to secure some private end
  6. A wholesale merchant, esp if selling to retailers (US)
combining form

With first, second, etc, denoting someone in, or seeking, their first, second, etc job

jobbˈery noun

  1. Jobbing
  2. The abuse of public office for private gain
  3. Unfair means employed to secure some private end

jobbˈie noun (slang)

A lump of excrement

jobbˈing adjective

Working by the job

noun
  1. The doing of jobs
  2. Miscellaneous printing-work other than books or newspapers
  3. Buying and selling as a broker
  4. Stock-jobbing
  5. Jobbery

jobˈless adjective

Having no job

noun

(with the) jobless people

jobˈlessness noun

job centre or Jobcentre noun

(also without cap) an office run by the government agency Jobcentre Plus, which provides information about available jobs

job club or Jobˈclub noun

An association directed towards helping the jobless to find employment for themselves through learning and using the required skills, motivation, etc

job control language noun (computing)

A language for writing instructions to control the performance of jobs by an operating system

job description noun

A detailed listing of all the duties, responsibilities, tasks, etc necessary to a specific job

job evaluation noun

A method of working out the relative postion and appropriate salary for the different jobs in an organization by allocating points for the various aspects of each job as listed in the job description

jobˈ-hopping noun

Changing job frequently

job lot noun

  1. A collection of odds and ends, esp for sale as one lot
  2. Any collection of inferior quality

jobˈ-master noun

A livery-stable keeper who jobs out horses and carriages

job of work noun

A task, bit of work

job rotation noun

The practice of moving workers from one activity to another in order to provide them with variety and widen their experience

jobˈseeker noun

(also with cap) in Britain since 1996, an unemployed person receiving Jobseeker's Allowance, a state benefit for those actively seeking work

job share, jobˈshare or job sharing noun

The practice of dividing one job between two part-time workers

jobˈ-share intransitive verb

a bad (or good) job

  1. A piece of work badly (or well) done
  2. An unlucky (or lucky) fact

do the job

To succeed in doing what is required

give something up as a bad job

To abandon a task, etc as impossible or not worthwhile

have a job to (informal)

To have difficulty in

job off

To sell (goods) cheaply to get rid of them

job out

To divide (work) among contractors, etc

jobs for the boys

Jobs given to or created for friends or supporters

just the job (informal)

Exactly what is wanted

make the best of a bad job

To do one's best in difficult circumstances

odd jobs see under odd1

on the job

  1. At work, in activity, busy (onˈ-the-job adjective happening while one is at work)
  2. Engaged in sexual intercourse (informal)

odd1 /od/

adjective
  1. Unpaired
  2. Left over
  3. Additional
  4. Extra
  5. Not one of a complete set
  6. Not exactly divisible by two, opp to even
  7. One in excess of half the number
  8. Left over after a round number has been taken
  9. (used after the number) slightly over, as in thirty odd
  10. With something additional in lower denominations or lower powers of ten
  11. Strange
  12. Queer
  13. Occasional
  14. Casual
  15. Out-of-the-way
  16. Standing apart
  17. Not matching (Spenser)
  18. At variance (Shakespeare)
adverb (Shakespeare)

Oddly

noun
  1. One stroke more than one's opponent (golf)
  2. A stroke allowed in handicap (golf)
  3. One trick above book (whist)
ORIGIN: ON oddi point, a triangle, odd number; cf ON oddr, OE ord point

oddˈish adjective

oddˈity noun

  1. The state of being odd or singular
  2. Strangeness
  3. An odd quality or characteristic
  4. A strange or odd person or thing

oddˈ-like adjective (Scot)

  1. Odd
  2. Odd-looking

oddˈly adverb

oddˈment noun

  1. Something remaining over
  2. One of a broken set (often in pl)

oddˈness noun

odds /odz/ plural noun

  1. (sometimes treated as sing) inequality
  2. Difference in favour of one against another
  3. More than an even wager
  4. The amount or proportion by which the bet of one exceeds that of another
  5. The chances or probability
  6. Advantage
  7. Dispute
  8. Scraps
  9. Miscellaneous pieces, as in odds and ends

oddˈball noun

An eccentric person, a nonconformist in some respect

adjective
  1. Strange, peculiar
  2. Eccentric

oddˈ-come-short noun (archaic)

  1. A short remnant
  2. (in pl oddˈ-come-shorts) odds and ends

oddˈ-come-shortˈly noun (archaic)

An early day, any time

odd-eˈven adjective or noun (Shakespeare; of the time about midnight)

Appar neither one thing nor another

Oddˈfellow noun

A member of a secret benevolent society called the Independent Order of Oddfellows

oddˈ-job adjective

odd-jobbˈer or oddˈ-jobman noun

odd-jobbˈing noun

odd jobs plural noun

Occasional pieces of work such as small house repairs

odd legs plural noun (engineering)

Callipers with two hinged legs, one curved distally and placed against an edge and the other with a scribing point

oddˈ-lookˈing adjective

odd lot noun (stock exchange)

A block of less than one hundred shares

odd-lottˈer noun

Someone who deals in odd lots

oddˈ-man noun

  1. Odd-jobman
  2. An umpire
  3. Someone who has a casting vote
  4. The singling out or elimination of one from a number for any purpose

oddsˈman noun (Scot)

An umpire or arbiter

oddsˈ-onˈ adjective

  1. (of a chance) better than even
  2. In betting, a price that will result in a final return of less than double the original stake

at odds

At variance (with with)

give or lay odds

To offer a bet at favourable odds

long odds or short odds see long3and short

make no odds

To make no significant difference

odd man out or odd one out

  1. A person who is left out when numbers are made up
  2. A person who, whether through personal inclination or rejection by others, gets set apart from the group to which he or she belongs, because of eg a difference of interests, behaviour, etc

odds and ends

Miscellaneous pieces, perh orig meaning points and ends

odds and sods (informal)

Miscellaneous people, things, etc

over the odds (informal)

More than expected, normal, necessary, etc

shout the odds (slang)

To talk too much or too loudly

take odds

  1. To accept a bet
  2. To offer a bet at unfavourable odds

what's the odds?

What difference does it make?
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