job in English dictionary

  • job

    Meanings and definitions of "job"

    • A task.
    • An economic role for which a person is paid.
    • (in noun compounds) Plastic surgery; see e.g. nose job.
    • (computing) A task, or series of tasks, carried out in batch mode (especially on a mainframe computer)
    • (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.
    • noun
      A task.
    • noun
      An economic role for which a person is paid.
    • noun
      (in noun compounds)
      Plastic surgery.
    • noun
      (computing)
      A task, or series of tasks, carried out in batch mode (especially on a mainframe computer).
    • noun
      A sudden thrust or stab; a jab.
    • noun
      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.
    • noun
      Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately.
    • noun
      A thing (often used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall).
    • verb
      (intransitive)
      To do odd jobs or occasional work for hire.
    • verb
      (intransitive)
      To work as a jobber.
    • verb
      (intransitive, professional wrestling slang)
      To take the loss.
    • verb
      (transitive, trading)
      To buy and sell for profit, as securities; to speculate in.
    • verb
      (transitive, often with out)
      To subcontract a project or delivery in small portions to a number of contractors.
    • verb
      (intransitive)
      To seek private gain under pretence of public service; to turn public matters to private advantage.
    • verb
      To strike or stab with a pointed instrument.
    • verb
      To thrust in, as a pointed instrument.
    • verb
      To hire or let in periods of service.
    • A piece of work to be done, a task to be fulfilled.
    • A series of business activities that when completed will fulfill a high-level objective.
    • Productive activity, service, trade, or craft for which one is regularly paid.
    • task
    • economic role for which a person is paid
    • to do odd jobs
    • to work as a jobber
    • to speculate
    • 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"
    • noun
      a crime (especially a robbery); "the gang pulled off a bank job in St. Louis"
    • noun
      a damaging piece of work; "dry rot did the job of destroying the barn"; "the barber did a real job on my hair"
    • 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"
    • 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"
    • noun
      a workplace; as in the expression `on the job'
    • noun
      (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit
    • noun
      the performance of a piece of work; "she did an outstanding job as Ophelia"; "he gave it up as a bad job"
    • noun
      the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money; "he's not in my line of business"
    • noun
      the responsibility to do something; "it is their job to print the truth"
    • verb
      arranged for contracted work to be done by others
    • 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"
    • verb
      profit privately from public office and official business
    • verb
      work occasionally; "As a student I jobbed during the semester breaks"

    Synonyms of "job" in English dictionary

    hero, occupation, cheat are the top synonyms of "job" in the English thesaurus.

    Grammar and declension of job

    • job ( third-person singular simple present jobs, present participle jobbing, simple past and past participle jobbed)
    • lp  liczba pojedyncza job, lm  liczba mnoga jobs
    • job ( plural  jobs)
    • job (plural jobs)
    • job (third-person singular simple present jobs, present participle jobbing, simple past and past participle jobbed)
  • Job

    Meanings and definitions of "job"

    • (Biblical) A book of the Old Testament and the Hebrew Tanakh.
    • A male given name
    • An Old Testament character.
    • proper
      (biblical)
      A book of the Old Testament and the Hebrew Tanakh.
    • proper
      A male given name
    • proper
      An Old Testament and qur'anic character.
    • A character of the Old Testament.
    • Job (Bible)
    • book of the Bible
    • biblical character
    • noun
      any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing
    • noun
      a book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply
    • noun
      a Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him

    Synonyms of "job" in English dictionary

    Another word for "job" in the English thesaurus is Book of Job.

    • Book of Job

      a book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply

    Grammar and declension of job

    • Job 15px Job on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 15px “ Job” on Wikisource. Wikisource Wiktionary has an Appendix listing books of the Bible
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