day job

noun

: one's regular employment as contrasted with an occasional, secondary, or coveted job

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All the while, as his day jobs changed, Harwood stayed around the game. Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 11 Mar. 2025 But Reeves was also at the height of his astonishing beauty, stalking around a moody L.A. in a rumpled dress shirt and loosened black tie as though perpetually winding down from some more professional day job that doesn’t exist. Alison Willmore, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2025 Newsom is not the only sitting politician to add a podcasting gig with iHeart alongside his day job. Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Feb. 2025 Another alternative is to keep your day job until rollout, and work on your startup on nights and weekends. Martin Zwilling, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for day job

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First Known Use

1971, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of day job was in 1971

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“Day job.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/day%20job. Accessed 18 Mar. 2025.

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