as in performance
a job usually for a specified amount of time (as for a musician, an actor, etc.)
He was finally able to book a gig at the nightclub. her last acting gig
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Recent Examples of gig
Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 23 Apr. 2026
O’Neill was passed over in 2024 to run Nike (Elliott Hill came out of retirement for the gig) after a quarter century at the sneaker maker.
—Shelly Banjo, semafor.com, 23 Apr. 2026
Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 19 Jan. 2026
Workers at the highest risk of underpayments are those at restaurants, bars, strip clubs, cleaning services, retail outlets and gig app companies.
—Elliott Wenzler, Denver Post, 29 Dec. 2025
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Noun
His first coaching gig was with the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga as an outside linebackers coach.
—Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 23 Apr. 2026
O’Neill was passed over in 2024 to run Nike (Elliott Hill came out of retirement for the gig) after a quarter century at the sneaker maker.
—Shelly Banjo, semafor.com, 23 Apr. 2026
Verb
The An Evening with David Letterman and Special Guest Zach Galifianakis gig during Just For Laughs Vancouver’s 10th season also gets Letterman back on the road.
—Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 19 Jan. 2026
Workers at the highest risk of underpayments are those at restaurants, bars, strip clubs, cleaning services, retail outlets and gig app companies.
—Elliott Wenzler, Denver Post, 29 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gig
Noun
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Doncic surged for a 60-point performance against the Miami Heat during the Lakers’ nine-game winning streak that ultimately put them in position for a top-half seed in the West despite Doncic’s and Austin Reaves’ injuries.—
Benjamin Royer,
Oc Register,
20 Apr. 2026
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Last season, Ramoley sparked Brother Rice’s run to fourth place in Class 4A with a dominant performance in the supersectional against Providence.—
Patrick Z. McGavin,
Chicago Tribune,
20 Apr. 2026
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Festival history Founded in 1932 as a street fair, Festival of Nations became a tradition for the students bused in on field trips and for the general public in Minnesota.—
Kathryn Kovalenko,
Twin Cities,
10 Apr. 2026
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People bus in from surrounding neighborhoods and towns.—
Alexis Marshall,
NPR,
3 Apr. 2026
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Specifically, The Ritz of the Bayou, reissued this month by Hub City Press, the happy result of a botched reporting assignment.—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
23 Apr. 2026
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If a team is looking for a versatile defender who can excel no matter the assignment, Downs has positioned himself as that man in this draft.—
Scott Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
23 Apr. 2026
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The offices of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance had people of all ages on Wednesday night waiting for the end of the nightly Ramadan fast, from children sitting at tables doing math homework to cab drivers just getting off their shifts.—
Katherine Koretski,
CNN Money,
20 Mar. 2026
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The hotel’s stretch of A1A isn’t the most interesting so most guests opt to either keep to the property’s upscale amenities, cab it to South Beach (which is 15 minutes away), or go north to the chichi enclaves of Surfside and Bal Harbour for shopping and dining.—
Sara Liss,
Condé Nast Traveler,
12 Jan. 2026
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Issue areas include business, civic amenities, community resources, education and employment, energy and innovation, flood protection, food and agriculture, healthcare, land use and natural resources, public safety, transportation, water resources and wildfire and forest health.—
Camryn Dadey,
Sacbee.com,
21 Apr. 2026
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The class would enable students to gain specialized skills needed for employment after graduation or for further post-secondary training, a memo from the district said, and would also provide students with opportunities to teach other students in the district’s introductory welding course.—
Molly Morrow,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Apr. 2026
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The Route 66 Car Museum takes you on a century-long trip through automotive history; its collection of more than 75 classic cars includes the kind of models that motored down the Mother Road in its heyday.—
Ginger Crichton,
Midwest Living,
12 Apr. 2026
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With water temperatures in the low 60’s and only four hours left to fish, Bennett and Shad motored over to a new spot on the west end of the lake where the water was shallower.—
Kubie Brown,
Outdoor Life,
19 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Your goal isn’t to get anyone fired, but more to help redefine boundaries on intimacy at work.—
Harriette Cole,
Mercury News,
24 Apr. 2026
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Detective Torres pulled in four officers from the department's Gun Violence Initiative unit, a team of intermediate detectives trained for exactly this kind of boots-on-ground work.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
23 Apr. 2026
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After 26 years in college basketball that included a 19-season run at Florida with back-to-back national championships in 2006 and ’07, Donovan moved to the NBA in 2015 to coach the Oklahoma City Thunder.—
Julia Poe,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Apr. 2026
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While much of the lineup has changed for Charlotte since last season’s playoffs, the Checkers are still coached by Geordie Kinnear, who many players credited for the team’s big playoff run in 2025.—
Steve Lyttle,
Charlotte Observer,
21 Apr. 2026
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“Gig.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gig. Accessed 25 Apr. 2026.
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