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odd job

noun as in part-time task

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A number of people - including the man now convicted of her murder, neighbour and odd-job man David Newton - were arrested, but nobody was charged and the case lingered for years as unsolved.

From BBC

Panting heavily after digging the grave, shaking his head in dismay, local locksmith and odd-job man Urii Churachenko bent down and placed two cigarettes in the earth as a token for his friend.

From Reuters

Dutch media identified him as Joseph B, an Austrian odd-job man who had a small workshop on an industrial estate in the nearby town of Meppel.

She tweeted a photo of the camp odd-job man, whose name she never knew, and her message was retweeted 3,000 times which enabled her to find him.

From BBC

The tech manager said her mother, who was also given a bike, believes the man was nicknamed "Ab" and he was an odd-job staffer.

From BBC

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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