job lot

Example Sentences

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The 58-year-old said he bought a selection of items from a job lot which included the buttons from Bamfords Auctioneers in Spondon, Derby in July.

From BBC • Dec. 19, 2025

Toilets, taps, basins and baths make up the Crapper cluster, with the owner hoping someone will be "en suite" enough to buy it as a job lot, lest the lovely lavs be split up.

From BBC • Aug. 22, 2024

On the issue of facultative reinsurance, whereby it insures bundles of risk in a job lot, Swiss Re said it expected to finalise a policy for the oil and gas sector in 2023.

From Reuters • Mar. 17, 2022

It was run on such a pittance the players were grateful when the sponsors presented them with a job lot of yoghurt and fruit juice.

From The Guardian • Nov. 9, 2012

He shook it as though he were trying to shake it clear of a job lot of old-fashioned, antiquated ideals—as though he were trying to make room for newer, more useful, more modern conceptions.

From The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights by Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)