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Job lot   /dʒɑb lɑt/   Listen
Job lot

noun
1.
A miscellaneous collection of things sold together.





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"Job lot" Quotes from Famous Books



... less importance. Do you remember what a Prince Rupert's drop is? I absolutely know you don't, and to save you the trouble of looking it up, I'll explain that it is a glass pollywog which holds together all right until you snap off the tip of its tail. Then a job lot of molecular stresses are thrown out of balance, and the thing develops the surprising faculty of flying into innumerable fragments, with a very pleasing explosion. Whether the name is a tribute of Prince Rupert's propensity to fly off the handle, or whether ...
— Aladdin & Co. - A Romance of Yankee Magic • Herbert Quick
... I think you've made a mistake this time. People don't mind much about Jacob and Jonah and Jeremiah and the whole job lot of Sheenies; but they do mind about Ruth. Hang it all man! she was ...
— Phyllis of Philistia • Frank Frankfort Moore
... Barney's an' dere she took de goods out o' my pack an' fix up dis job lot fer you," said Eli ...
— A Man for the Ages - A Story of the Builders of Democracy • Irving Bacheller


Words linked to "Job lot" :   collection, aggregation, accumulation, assemblage


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