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• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈɒd man/

名詞

odd man (plural odd men)

1. In a group having an odd number of people, someone with the casting vote; an arbiter. [from 15th c.]
2. Someone who does odd jobs. [from 18th c.]
   • 1915, W. Somerset Maugham, chapter 58, in Of Human Bondage:

     ‘My father always kept a dog-cart, and we had three servants. We had a cook and a housemaid and an odd man.’

   • 1928, Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Penguin, published 2013, page 86:

     Their complexion was lustreless and clammy, although Aunt Evelyn's odd man had given them all the energy of his elbow.

3. (rowing) A man who trains in company with a boat's crew, so that he can take the place of anybody who falls ill.

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