job lot

noun

1
: a miscellaneous collection of goods for sale as a lot usually to a retailer
2
: a miscellaneous and usually inferior collection or group

Examples of job lot in a Sentence

The warehouse bought the pieces as a job lot.
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Where some other towns operating similar schemes have put together a job lot of houses for €1, Castiglione di Sicilia is pricing the properties according to their condition. Silvia Marchetti, CNN, 25 Apr. 2021

Word History

First Known Use

1828, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of job lot was in 1828

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“Job lot.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/job%20lot. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.

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