"paint job" meaning in English

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      "form": "paint jobs",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "His car has a great new paint job.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 March 8, “Network News: Pwllheli 'box gets a makeover”, in RAIL, number 978, page 22",
          "text": "Hidden timber elements, lintels and roof tiles have also been replaced, in addition to gaining a new paint job and guttering drainage, and the removal of ivy that was damaging the exterior.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The act, or the result of painting or repainting something"
      ],
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          "repainting",
          "repainting"
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      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "word": "lipstick on a pig"
        }
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        {
          "ref": "2008 May 30, Earnest Cavalli, “Konami: Gun Metal PlayStation 3 Not 'Just a Paint Job'”, in Wired, San Francisco, C.A.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-04-14",
          "text": "\"Some seem to think that the Gun Metal Gray is just a \"paint job\", which it is not,\" wrote Konami's community relations operatives in a recent public forum post.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017 October 19, Eliot Brown, “WeWork: A $20 Billion Startup Fueled by Silicon Valley Pixie Dust”, in The Wall Street Journal, New York, N.Y.: Dow Jones & Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-12-04",
          "text": "\"WeWork is nothing but Regus with a paint job—it's newer, cooler,\" said Frank Cottle, chairman of Alliance Business Centers, a large network of serviced offices. WeWork's valuation, he said, \"makes no sense.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
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      "glosses": [
        "A modification to something which appears flashy or impressive but is actually superficial."
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          "flashy#Adjective"
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          "impressive",
          "impressive#Noun"
        ],
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          "superficial",
          "superficial#Adjective"
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figuratively) A modification to something which appears flashy or impressive but is actually superficial."
      ],
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        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "paint job"
}

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      "form": "paint jobs",
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          "text": "His car has a great new paint job.",
          "type": "example"
        },
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          "ref": "2023 March 8, “Network News: Pwllheli 'box gets a makeover”, in RAIL, number 978, page 22",
          "text": "Hidden timber elements, lintels and roof tiles have also been replaced, in addition to gaining a new paint job and guttering drainage, and the removal of ivy that was damaging the exterior.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "The act, or the result of painting or repainting something"
      ],
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        [
          "painting",
          "painting"
        ],
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          "repainting",
          "repainting"
        ]
      ]
    },
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2008 May 30, Earnest Cavalli, “Konami: Gun Metal PlayStation 3 Not 'Just a Paint Job'”, in Wired, San Francisco, C.A.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-04-14",
          "text": "\"Some seem to think that the Gun Metal Gray is just a \"paint job\", which it is not,\" wrote Konami's community relations operatives in a recent public forum post.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017 October 19, Eliot Brown, “WeWork: A $20 Billion Startup Fueled by Silicon Valley Pixie Dust”, in The Wall Street Journal, New York, N.Y.: Dow Jones & Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-12-04",
          "text": "\"WeWork is nothing but Regus with a paint job—it's newer, cooler,\" said Frank Cottle, chairman of Alliance Business Centers, a large network of serviced offices. WeWork's valuation, he said, \"makes no sense.\"",
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        }
      ],
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        "A modification to something which appears flashy or impressive but is actually superficial."
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          "superficial",
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        "(figuratively) A modification to something which appears flashy or impressive but is actually superficial."
      ],
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  "word": "paint job"
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