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job lot

noun

a large, often assorted quantity of goods sold or handled as a single transaction.
a miscellaneous quantity; a quantity of odds and ends.

job lot

Origin of job lot¹

First recorded in 1850–55

They were a job lot, accumulated to offset and counteract his influence.

And what a job lot of humanity does have161 the coin to spend the summer, or part of it, at these four-a-day resorts!

Parties desiring to buy a job-lot of garden tools, will do well to call and examine my stock.

His whole soul rose in arms against agreeing with that ill-bred little cur, and the rest of this job-lot.

"I stop at David Barney's an' dere she took de goods out o' my pack an' fix up dis job lot fer you," said Eli with a laugh.

April 18, 2024petrichor

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