job lot

noun

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

job lot

noun

1. a miscellaneous collection of articles sold as a lot
2. a collection of cheap or trivial items

Word History and Origins

Origin of job lot¹

First recorded in 1850–55

Example Sentences

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

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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!

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

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

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"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.

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