Job — synonyms, definition

1. job (Noun)

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job (Noun) — A person's occupation, work, or trade.

job (Noun) — A specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee. ex. "estimates of the city's loss on that job ranged as high as a million dollars" ex. "the job of repairing the engine took several hours"

job (Noun) — A workplace; as in the expression "on the job";.

job (Noun) — An object worked on; a result produced by working. ex. "he held the job in his left hand and worked on it with his right"

job (Noun) — The responsibility to do something. ex. "it is their job to print the truth"

job (Noun) — The performance of a piece of work. ex. "she did an outstanding job as Ophelia" ex. "he gave it up as a bad job"

job (Noun) — A damaging piece of work. ex. "dry rot did the job of destroying the barn" ex. "the barber did a real job on my hair"

job (Noun) — A state of difficulty that needs to be resolved. ex. "it is always a job to contact him"

job (Noun) — (computing) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit.

job (Noun) — A crime (especially a robbery). ex. "the gang pulled off a bank job in St. Louis"

job (Noun) — (computing) a process or instance of execution of a program.

job (Noun) — Any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing.

job (Noun) — A book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply.

job (Noun) — A Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him.

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2. job (Verb)

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job (Verb) — Profit privately from public office and official business.

job (Verb) — Arranged for contracted work to be done by others.

job (Verb) — Work occasionally. ex. "As a student I jobbed during the semester breaks"

job (Verb) — Invest at a risk. ex. "I bought this house not because I want to live in it but to sell it later at a good price, so I am jobbing"

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