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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
paint job
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ My dad bought me a 67 Chevy automatic, with a brand new paint job.
▪ This place needs a paint job.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After all, the building needed a paint job.
▪ And the, you know, the hardwood floor gets a paint job.
▪ Behind closed doors ... the paint job the public will never see.
▪ In fact it was papier-mache on which some one had done a skilful paint job.
▪ Parts of some letters had been chipped away, but a careful paint job had cured them.

Usage examples of "paint job".

If you set up the cot for me and I slept alone, I wouldn't disturb paint job much.

On the stout side, and underneath a heavy paint job her face was stupid but kindly.

If they insisted that Poland, though lost, must remain white and red, was that any reason why my drum, rendered suspect by the fresh paint job, should be lost too?

The yard had been neglected and it looked as though it could have used a paint job a couple of years earlier—.

It would make you cry to see what the pine resin had already done to the paint job.

That one had an even spiffier paint job than the alien who'd come in with the guards.

Through the front bedroom window, we could see that the paint job was lousy but finished, the drop cloths had vanished, and the bed and other furniture had been shoved back into place.