gig
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- : a single professional engagement of one or more performers, especially of jazz or rock musicians: His band has a gig at a club in New Jersey.
- : a live performance, as on a stage: I went to see my friend's comedy gig.
- : any job, especially one of short or uncertain duration: Years ago he had a teaching gig out west somewhere.
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- : relating to or being a job of short or uncertain duration: Gig workers don't receive benefits such as health insurance.
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gigged, gig·ging.
- : to work as a musician or other performer, especially in a single engagement: That vocalist has gigged with some of the biggest names in the business.
- : to work at any job, especially one of short or uncertain duration: He gigs as a clown at children’s birthday parties.
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Bastian Lehman, CEO of Postmates, also penned an op-ed on CNN about gig workers and how there needs to be a third classification of workers, which is essentially what Prop 22 is pushing.
One recent gig took place across three different locations, including a beach town in the south of France and New York City.
It was a temporary position holding him over between hospital gigs in Austin and New Mexico, where he now lives and works.
The phone-hanging tactic may reflect increased competition among workers for Flex jobs among workers at a time when Uber and Lyft rides—another popular source of so-called gig work—are in decline due to the pandemic.
As gig companies continue to campaign against worker reclassification, some are now hiring full-time employees positioned to organize such efforts.
Monster Jam executives “have test driven quite a few women that have decided to pass” on the gig, Johnson said.
Inspiring others to follow in their footsteps is one of the best parts of the gig, the drivers said.
Meet the psychics preying on the elderly with a mail-order moneymaking gig that netted them millions a year.
She occasionally has to dress up as a mermaid for her gig at a fancy Miami hotel.
Ironically, his quick recovery after such a room-cooling moment could still land him the gig.
The captain's white gig having been manned, he seated himself in the stern sheets, a large flag trailing in the water behind him.
The boat was a man-of-war's small four-oared gig; her outfit was scanty, but what was necessary we rapidly improvised.
And with that Macfarlane took his departure and drove off up the wynd in his gig to get under cover before daylight.
Once I said to him on a wery rainy day, "Sir, shall I bring the gig down to your office?"
We rode in a gig, and our animal was a steady-going mare, and behaved as such; but all had not gigs or steady-going mares.