job
Nouns
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(n) the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
- he's not in my line of business
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(n) 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
- (n) a workplace; as in the expression "on the job";
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(n) an object worked on; a result produced by working
- he held the job in his left hand and worked on it with his right
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(n) the responsibility to do something
- it is their job to print the truth
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(n) the performance of a piece of work
- she did an outstanding job as Ophelia
- he gave it up as a bad job
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(n) a damaging piece of work
- dry rot did the job of destroying the barn
- the barber did a real job on my hair
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(n) 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
- (n) a Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him
- (n) any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing
- (n) (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit
- (n) a book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply Book of Job,
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(n) a crime (especially a robbery)
- the gang pulled off a bank job in St. Louis
Verbs
- (v) profit privately from public office and official business
- (v) arranged for contracted work to be done by others farm out, subcontract,
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(v) work occasionally
- As a student I jobbed during the semester breaks
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(v) 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