jobbing

• advancing
• apprenticing
• assuming
• contracting
• employing
• engaging
• enlisting
• feeing
• headhunting
• hiring
• laying on
• partnering
• paying
• placing
• promoting
• re-employing
• re-engaging
• recruiting
• reemploying
• reengaging
• rehiring
• retaining
• scouting
• subcontracting
• taking on
• upgrading

• axing
• canning
• discharging
• dismissing
• firing
• furloughing
• laying off
• locking out
• sacking

• verb
  1. To do odd jobs or occasional work for hire.
  2. To work as a jobber.
  3. To take the loss.
  4. To buy and sell for profit, as securities; to speculate in.
  5. (often with out) To subcontract a project or delivery in small portions to a number of contractors.
  6. To seek private gain under pretence of public service; to turn public matters to private advantage.
  7. To strike or stab with a pointed instrument.
  8. To thrust in, as a pointed instrument.
  9. To hire or let in periods of service.
• noun
  1. Buying and selling stocks or goods for profit; mercenary trading.
  2. The fact or practice of using a public office or other position of trust for personal gain.
  3. Work carried out by the job; piecework, odd-job work.
• adjective
  1. That does odd jobs; that works on occasional jobs as available.

• After leaving his full-time job, he started jobbing as a freelance designer.
• The actor spent years jobbing in small roles before landing a big part.
• She's been jobbing as a carpenter, taking on short-term contracts wherever she can find work.
• Many people in the creative industry rely on jobbing to make ends meet between bigger projects.
• He enjoys jobbing in various fields, as it allows him to explore different interests.

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