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McJob

Noun

Meaning

McJob (plural McJobs)

(colloquial, sometimes derogatory) A typically entry-level job, often part-time or temporary, generally paying low wages and requiring minimal training, such as entry-level positions at fast-food restaurants.
What are you going to do this summer? –I'm going to find a McJob for the evenings and hang out at the beach during the day.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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In 2006, while running its UK operations, he asked the Oxford English Dictionary to change its definition of the phrase McJob from “an unstimulating, low-paid job”. Source: Internet

Kill it, he ordered the lexicographers, calling the definition of McJob as "low-paying and dead-end work" (in his paraphrase) inaccurate and insulting to restaurant workers everywhere. Source: Internet

The term " McJob " is introduced, defined as a job with poor compensation that does not keep pace with inflation, inflexible or undesirable hours, little chance of advancement, and high levels of stress. Source: Internet

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