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

[Ben Zimmer]

I wrote about "gig economy" for the Wall Street Journal in 2015, noting the
2009 use that Fred mentions (Tina Brown in The Daily Beast).

https://www.wsj.com/articles/gig-once-a-word-for-a-joke-now-for-an-economy-1438961012
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-gig-economy

I also antedated OED2 for the musical sense (pushing it back from 1926 to
1921).

http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2015-August/138431.html

On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 12:53 PM Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu>
wrote:

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