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[job] / dʒɒb /




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Major Hollywood unions and movie theater owners have raised red flags about the deal, saying it will reduce competition and lead to significant job losses.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 13, 2026

Unions have strongly criticised VW and Blume for unsettling employees by allowing media reports of mass job cuts to circulate without comment, demanding the CEO take a public stand.

From Barron's Jul. 13, 2026

Warsh will testify before Congress this week on his inflation-fighting strategy for the first time since taking over the top Fed job in May.

From MarketWatch Jul. 13, 2026

“I think we’re just doing a good job with the plan,” Wrobleski said last week, days before he was named an All-Star.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 13, 2026

“Well, he did, and it’s my job to follow it up.”

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

“Our employees lost their jobs and our main source of income is gone.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 14, 2026

This, he said would mean a theoretical loss of 50,000 jobs worldwide.

From BBC Jul. 13, 2026

The increased speeds of conveyor belts in meatpacking plants, Mr. Smil notes, make those jobs among the most perilous in existence as measured by worker injuries.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 13, 2026

"As half of our overheads stem from staff costs, a theoretical calculation -- assuming no change in labour costs -- would result in the loss of around 50,000 jobs," he said.

From Barron's Jul. 13, 2026

They either moved or had their own kids or got other jobs that paid more money.

From Absolutely Almost by Lisa Graff

Then it may end up in an off-price channel or being jobbed out to another country, et cetera.

From The Verge Jul. 26, 2022

College football fans watching the game believed Tennessee got jobbed.

From Fox News Dec. 31, 2021

After his discharge, he jobbed around as a disc jockey and newscaster at commercial stations in North Carolina and Virginia, including WAVA-FM in Northern Virginia, before joining NPR.

From Seattle Times Apr. 17, 2018

Protest that the Dodgers were jobbed and robbed and cost a chance to gain the early momentum that has been so important in this series.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 19, 2016

In ten minutes this commission is earned from the public, and this state sinking-fund joint stock jobbed.

From Old and New London Volume I by Thornbury, Walter

Alliance deputy leader Stephen Farry told BBC's Sunday Politics programme that the move was "a backwards step" and that Lord Alderdice had made "a fundamentally poor judgement call" to propose the reintroduction of double jobbing.

From BBC Jan. 17, 2022

Double jobbing, also known as dual mandates, were banned in Northern Ireland in 2016, when a number of MPs were forced to give up their seats in the assembly.

From BBC Jan. 16, 2022

In his letter, Lord Caine said he was opposed to the possibility of double jobbing remaining indefinitely so the amendment was reworked with a time limit.

From BBC Jan. 16, 2022

Double jobbing allowed politicians to hold seats in different legislatures, for example in the House of Commons and the Northern Ireland Assembly.

From BBC Jan. 15, 2022

His musical efflorescence was tragically brief, but this is the man who turned the chord-strumming, jobbing electric guitar into a high-wire, virtuoso lead instrument, from also-ran to star turn.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall




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