Job

noun
dʒoʊb

Noun

  • a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee

    estimates of the city's loss on that job ranged as high as a million dollars

    the job of repairing the engine took several hours

    Similar:ChoreTask
    Type of:Duty
  • a crime (especially a robbery)

    the gang pulled off a bank job in St. Louis

    Similar:Caper
    Type of:Robbery
  • a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved

    it is always a job to contact him

    Similar:Problem
    Type of:Difficulty
  • a damaging piece of work

    dry rot did the job of destroying the barn

    the barber did a real job on my hair

    Type of:Work
  • the performance of a piece of work

    she did an outstanding job as Ophelia

    he gave it up as a bad job

    Type of:Work
  • an object worked on; a result produced by working

    he held the job in his left hand and worked on it with his right

    Type of:ProductProduction
  • the responsibility to do something

    it is their job to print the truth

    Type of:ResponsibilityDutyObligation
  • the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money

    Type of:Activity
  • a book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply

  • any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing

    Type of:Unfortunate
  • a workplace; as in the expression `on the job'

    Type of:WorkplaceWork
  • (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit

    Type of:Application
  • a Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him

Verb

  • work occasionally

    As a student I jobbed during the semester breaks

    Type of:Work
  • invest at a risk

    Similar:Speculate
    Type of:CommitPlacePut
  • arranged for contracted work to be done by others

    Similar:Subcontract
    Type of:EmployHireEngage
  • profit privately from public office and official business

    Type of:ChiselCheat

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