love when the jobcentre assigns you arbitrary good-faith errands so they can justify paying you while you wait for an actually realistic option to show up
And that was the day that the on-board glazier found out that the Enterprise has a JobCentre.
(British) A government-funded agency that helps the unemployed to find work; a local office of this agency.
The attack campaign depicted snaking queues outside a jobcentre.
“love when the jobcentre assigns you arbitrary good-faith errands so they can justify paying you while you wait for an actually realistic option to show up”
"Jobcentre" means a government-funded agency that helps the unemployed to find work; a local office of this agency. It is one of many casual words teens pick up from friends, social media, music or sport, and on its own it carries no particular warning. If you hear your teen use it, it is fair to ask what they mean by it in their friend group, since meanings drift quickly. Asking out of curiosity rather than alarm tends to keep the conversation open and useful.
Slang is read by different audiences for very different reasons. The For parents view re-explains the term in plain, non-judgemental language so a caregiver can understand what their child means without needing the surrounding subculture. The For English learners view focuses on register (when it's safe to use), formal alternatives, and common mistakes — what a textbook won't teach you.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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“And that was the day that the on-board glazier found out that the Enterprise has a JobCentre.”
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