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one-euro job
 n.— «They often deride one-euro jobs as “Zwangsarbeit,” the German word for forced work that evokes Nazi labor camps.» —“A rude ’05 awakening for Germans” by Carter Dougherty in Frankfurt, Germany International Herald Tribune Dec. 28, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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