"proper job" meaning in English

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        {
          "text": "You did a proper job on that one, me lover.",
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      "glosses": [
        "Something performed well."
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        "(UK, West Country) Something performed well."
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        {
          "ref": "1998, Liza Cody, Monkey Wrench, page 88",
          "text": "She'd go out begging. Well, truth to tell, we'd go out begging. You know the deal — 'Got any spare change, mister?' — 'Got the price of a cuppa, missus?' Only, me being the size I was, even as a kid, I wasn't much good at it.¶ 'Get a proper job,' they'd say to me. 'Get a job down the mines.' Or the building site. The worst one was, 'What's the matter, you run away from the circus?'",
          "type": "quotation"
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        {
          "ref": "2012 July 11, Tom de Castella, “Should everyone have done a 'proper job'?”, in BBC News, retrieved 2014-11-20",
          "text": "The three main party political leaders have at times been accused of failing the proper job test. They are perceived to be career politicians who have done nothing outside media or politics.",
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        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see proper, job. (respectable employment, etc.)"
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          "text": "\"I've painted the fence.\"\n\"Proper job!\"",
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      "glosses": [
        "Good work; well done."
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        "(UK, West Country) Good work; well done."
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          "text": "You did a proper job on that one, me lover.",
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        "Something performed well."
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        "(UK, West Country) Something performed well."
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        },
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        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see proper, job. (respectable employment, etc.)"
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        "(UK, West Country) Good work; well done."
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