JOB

job

(noun) a damaging piece of work; “dry rot did the job of destroying the barn”; “the barber did a real job on my hair”

job

(noun) the performance of a piece of work; “she did an outstanding job as Ophelia”; “he gave it up as a bad job”

occupation, business, job, line of work, line

(noun) the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money; “he’s not in my line of business”

job

(noun) the responsibility to do something; “it is their job to print the truth”

job, task, chore

(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”; “the endless task of classifying the samples”; “the farmer’s morning chores”

caper, job

(noun) a crime (especially a robbery); “the gang pulled off a bank job in St. Louis”

job

(noun) a workplace; as in the expression ‘on the job’

job

(noun) an object worked on; a result produced by working; “he held the job in his left hand and worked on it with his right”

Job, Book of Job

(noun) a book in the Old Testament containing Job’s pleas to God about his afflictions and God’s reply

job

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

Job

(noun) any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing

Job

(noun) a Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him

problem, job

(noun) a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved; “she and her husband are having problems”; “it is always a job to contact him”; “urban problems such as traffic congestion and smog”

speculate, job

(verb) invest at a risk; “I bought this house not because I want to live in it but to sell it later at a good price, so I am speculating”

job

(verb) work occasionally; “As a student I jobbed during the semester breaks”

subcontract, farm out, job

(verb) arranged for contracted work to be done by others

job

(verb) profit privately from public office and official business

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Proper noun

Job

(biblical) A book of the Old Testament and the Hebrew Tanakh.

A male given name from Hebrew

A character in the Old Testament and the Qur'an, renowned for his patience.

Noun

Job (plural Jobs)

A person who shows remarkable patience.

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Etymology

Noun

job (plural jobs)

A task.

An economic role for which a person is paid.

(in noun compounds) Plastic surgery.

(computing) A task, or series of tasks, carried out in batch mode (especially on a mainframe computer).

A sudden thrust or stab; a jab.

A public transaction done for private profit; something performed ostensibly as a part of official duty, but really for private gain; a corrupt official business.

Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately.

(colloquial) A thing (often used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall).

Usage notes

• Adjectives often applied to "job": easy, hard, poor, good, great, excellent, decent, low-paying, steady, stable, secure, challenging, demanding, rewarding, boring, thankless, stressful, horrible, lousy, satisfying, industrial, educational, academic.

Verb

job (third-person singular simple present jobs, present participle jobbing, simple past and past participle jobbed)

(intransitive) To do odd jobs or occasional work for hire.

(intransitive) To work as a jobber.

(intransitive, professional wrestling slang) To take the loss.

(transitive, trading) To buy and sell for profit, as securities; to speculate in.

(transitive, often, with out) To subcontract a project or delivery in small portions to a number of contractors.

(intransitive) To seek private gain under pretence of public service; to turn public matters to private advantage.

To strike or stab with a pointed instrument.

To thrust in, as a pointed instrument.

To hire or let in periods of service.

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Source: Wiktionary

Job, n. Etym: [Prov. E. job, gob, n., a small piece of wood, v., to stab, strike; cf. E. gob, gobbet; perh. influenced by E. chop to cut off, to mince. See Gob.]

1. A sudden thrust or stab; a jab.

2. A piece of chance or occasional work; any definite work undertaken in gross for a fixed price; as, he did the job for a thousand dollars.

3. A public transaction done for private profit; something performed ostensibly as a part of official duty, but really for private gain; a corrupt official business.

4. Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately. [Colloq.]

5. A situation or opportunity of work; as, he lost his job. [Colloq.]

Note: Job is used adjectively to signify doing jobs, used for jobs, or let on hire to do jobs; as, job printer; job master; job horse; job wagon, etc. By the job, at a stipulated sum for the work, or for each piece of work done; -- distinguished from time work; as, the house was built by the job.

– Job lot, a quantity of goods, usually miscellaneous, sold out of the regular course of trade, at a certain price for the whole; as, these articles were included in a job lot.

– Job master, one who lest out horses and carriages for hire, as for family use. [Eng.] -- Job printer, one who does miscellaneous printing, esp. circulars, cards, billheads, etc.

– Odd job, miscellaneous work of a petty kind; occasional work, of various kinds, or for various people.

Job, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Jobbed; p. pr. & vb. n. Jobbing.]

1. To strike or stab with a pointed instrument. L'Estrange.

2. To thrust in, as a pointed instrument. Moxon.

3. To do or cause to be done by separate portions or lots; to sublet (work); as, to job a contract.

4. (Com.)

Definition: To buy and sell, as a broker; to purchase of importers or manufacturers for the purpose of selling to retailers; as, to job goods.

5. To hire or let by the job or for a period of service; as, to job a carriage. Thackeray.

Job, v. i.

1. To do chance work for hire; to work by the piece; to do petty work. Authors of all work, to job for the season. Moore.

2. To seek private gain under pretense of public service; to turn public matters to private advantage. And judges job, and bishops bite the town. Pope.

3. To carry on the business of a jobber in merchandise or stocks.

Job, n.

Definition: The hero of the book of that name in the Old Testament; the typical patient man. Job's comforter. (a) A false friend; a tactless or malicious person who, under pretense of sympathy, insinuates rebukes. (b) A boil. [Colloq.] -- Job's news, bad news. Carlyle.

– Job's tears (Bot.), a kind of grass (Coix Lacryma), with hard, shining, pearly grains.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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