odd-job man

1. 1.

   a man skilled in various odd jobs and other small tasks

   Synonymshandymanjack of all trades

   Broaderrepairman

Questions about odd-job man

What does odd-job man mean?

odd-job man means "a man skilled in various odd jobs and other small tasks".

What is another word for odd-job man?

Close synonyms include handyman, jack of all trades. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is odd-job man a common word?

odd-job man is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.