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.
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Silvia Marchetti, CNN, 25 Apr. 2021
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Silvia Marchetti, CNN, 25 Apr. 2021
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“Job lot.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/job%20lot. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.
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