Meanings
nounsummer job (plural summer jobs)
plural summer jobs
- A job done typically by a student only during the summer.
As a second-year student at Kharkiv University, I took a summer job as a conductor of the train that ran from Novorossiysk on the Russian Black Sea coast to Kaliningrad in the Baltics - a 48-hour journey via Kharkiv, from where the train originated.
2024 September 4, Vitali Vitaliev, “A salute to Ukraine's 'Second Army'”, in RAIL, number 1017, page 47
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Translations
Chinese Cantonese 暑期工
- 暑期工 (syu² kei⁴ gung¹)Translations
Chinese Mandarin 暑期工, 暑假工
- 暑期工 (shǔqīgōng)Translations
- 暑假工 (shǔjiàgōng)Translations
Finnish kesätyö
- kesätyöTranslations
French job d'été
- job d'étéTranslations
Polish praca wakacyjna
- praca wakacyjnaTranslations
Swedish sommarjobb
- sommarjobbTranslations
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APA
summer job. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/summer%20job
MLA
“summer job.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/summer%20job. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “summer job,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/summer%20job.
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