summer job

English

Etymology

Compound of summer +‎ job.

Noun

summer job (plural summer jobs)

1. A job done typically by a student only during the summer.
   • 2024 September 4, Vitali Vitaliev, “A salute to Ukraine's 'Second Army'”, in RAIL, number 1017, page 47:

     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.

Translations

Translations

• Finnish: kesätyö (fi)
• French: job d’été m
• Polish: praca wakacyjna f

Further reading

• “summer job”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “summer job” (US) / “summer job” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.
• “summer job”, in Collins English Dictionary.