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Definition of Odd-job man
1. Noun. A man skilled in various odd jobs and other small tasks.
Exact synonyms: Handyman, Jack Of All Trades
Generic synonyms: Maintenance Man, Repairman, Service Man
Generic synonyms: Maintenance Man, Repairman, Service Man
Lexicographical Neighbors of Odd-job Man
Literary usage of Odd-job man
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bergson and Future Philosophy: An Essay on the Scope of Intelligence by George Rostrevor Hamilton (1921)
"A gardener and an odd job man are pictured eating the lunch provided for them by
their employer—they are already half-way through it—and the following ..."
2. Harvard College: By an Oxonian by George Birkbeck Norman Hill (1894)
"... only the wealthy who can afford to keep a man-servant, so that the furnace
must be tended by the master of the house and his sons, or by an odd-job man. ..."
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