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noun
The practice of children undertaking to do small jobs around the home, originally for a charge of one shilling, traditionally offered by boy scouts during a designated week of the year.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, historical, uncountable
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History
See bob (“shilling”). The first Bob a Job Week was in April 1949.
