[Ads-l] New term for me "gig economy"

[Shapiro, Fred]

Is it the very common term "gig economy" that is being mentioned, or the even more common transferred sense of "gig"?  The earliest occurrences of "gig economy" in LexisNexis are from 2009; the transferred sense of "gig" has an OED first use of 1964.

Fred Shapiro



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Subject: New term for me "gig economy"

Apparently "gig economy" is any freelance job, not just music.



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