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Job

noun

1.

The principal activity in your life that you do to earn money. Synonyms: business, line, line of work, occupation.

2.

A specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee. Synonyms: chore, task. "The job of repairing the engine took several hours" , "The endless task of classifying the samples" , "The farmer's morning chores"

3.

A workplace; as in the expression.

4.

An object worked on; a result produced by working.

5.

The responsibility to do something.

6.

The performance of a piece of work. "He gave it up as a bad job"

7.

A damaging piece of work. "The barber did a real job on my hair"

8.

A state of difficulty that needs to be resolved. Synonym: problem. "It is always a job to contact him" , "Urban problems such as traffic congestion and smog"

9.

A Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him.

10.

Any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing.

11.

(computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit.

12.

A book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply. Synonym: Book of Job.

13.

A crime (especially a robbery). Synonym: caper.

verb

(past & past part. jobbed; pres. part. jobbing)

1.

Profit privately from public office and official business.

2.

Arranged for contracted work to be done by others. Synonyms: farm out, subcontract.

3.

Work occasionally.

4.

Invest at a risk. Synonym: speculate.

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"Job" Quotes from Famous Books

... clothes once more. It seemed to him that he was out of the world and that he must return to it. The covert insults of Mr. Oxford rankled and stung. And the fat foreman had mistaken him for a workman cadging for a job. ...

— Buried Alive: A Tale of These Days • Arnold Bennett

... passing his greasy smile around the company, as though it were some kind of refreshment. "Look at the whole job; it's a big job. We must have lawyers; we must have newspapers in all parts of the State; we must have writers to work up the historical claims of the city; we must have fellows to buttonhole honorable members; we must have fees for honorable members themselves. ...

— Stories by American Authors (Volume 4) • Constance Fenimore Woolson

... Each of these officers is allowed a numerous corps of clerks, to aid in keeping the accounts. There is also a foreman, or assistant master-armorer, to each principal branch of the work, and under him a foreman over every job. These are severally held accountable for all stock, tools, and parts of work delivered them for their respective departments, and they in their turn severally hold the individual workmen responsible for all stock, tools, or parts ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 12, No. 72, October, 1863 • Various

... with a sigh Matilda sat down to it. She had ventured as far as she thought best. In a few minutes more the long job was finished. The shawl was exactly as good as new, Mrs. Laval declared. She made Matilda tell her all about her learning the art of lace-mending; and then broke faith; for she went straight to her mother with the mended shawl and gave ...

— The House in Town • Susan Warner

... finally, it ceased to squirm beneath her, she lay quite still, gazing pensively up at us with liquid eyes, and only now and then twitching her hind-quarters to remind her victim that she was still on the job. ...

— Explorers of the Dawn • Mazo de la Roche

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