Synonyms for GIG
gɪggig

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1. gignoun

   long and light rowing boat; especially for racing

   Synonyms:
   spear, fishgig, fizgig, lance

2. spear, gig, fizgig, fishgig, lancenoun

   an implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish

   Synonyms:
   spear, fishgig, gig, fizgig, lancet, shaft, lance

3. gignoun

   a cluster of hooks (without barbs) that is drawn through a school of fish to hook their bodies; used when fish are not biting

   Synonyms:
   spear, fishgig, fizgig, lance

4. gignoun

   tender that is a light ship's boat; often for personal use of captain

   Synonyms:
   spear, fishgig, fizgig, lance

5. gignoun

   small two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage; with two seats and no hood

   Synonyms:
   spear, fishgig, fizgig, lance

6. gignoun

   a booking for musicians

   "they played a gig in New Jersey"

   Synonyms:
   spear, fishgig, fizgig, lance

Matched Categories

1. • Carriage
   • Engagement
   • Hook
   • Implement
   • Small Boat
   • Tender

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1. List of paraphrases for "gig":

   mgi, concert, conjunction, job

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1. David Huerta:

   When gig companies can spend over $200 million to pass a law that violates our state’s constitution instead of investing in workers, it’s clear that California needs better safeguards for our democracy.

2. Jay Leno:

   When I do a gig in Utah and they’ll go, ‘Look, we don’t want any drug jokes, we don’t want any sex jokes, I go, ‘OK, I’ll take those out’ and I do something else.

3. Ferrari Chairman Sergio Marchionne:

   What Jaguar has done with the Lightweight [E-Type] cars is clever, but reinventing the 250 is a tough gig, and living off the spoils of the past is a bad habit to get into.

4. Hillary Clinton:

   This 'on demand,' or so-called 'gig economy,' is creating exciting opportunities and unleashing innovation but it's also raising hard questions about workplace protections and what a good job will look like in the future.

5. Peter DeFazio:

   Perhaps they don't want to talk about what their model is doing to drive down wages and turn our transportation workforce from a skilled, trained pool of workers earning living wages to another casualty of the gig economy.