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单词 job-mistress
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job-mistressn.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: job n.2, mistress n.
Etymology: < job n.2 + mistress n., after jobmaster n.
Obsolete.
A woman who lets out horses and carriages by the job or for a limited time.
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society > trade and finance > selling > hiring or letting out > [noun] > hirer out > of horses or carriages > woman
job-mistress1839
1839 Times 12 Nov. 7/2 The job mistress always sent her own servant to act as coachman.
1860 W. Hay Decisions Supreme Courts Eng. & Scotl. 71 The defendants..hired horses and a coachman from a job-mistress of the name of Mortlock.
1885 Law Rep.: Queen's Bench Div. 14 893 The defendants..hired the horses and a driver from a job-mistress.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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