job
noun
1. the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
Similar word(s): business, line, occupation
Definition categories: act, activity
2. 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
Definition categories: act, duty
3. a workplace; as in the expression `on the job'
Definition categories: man–made, work, workplace
4. an object worked on; a result produced by working
- he held the job in his left hand and worked on it with his right
Definition categories: man–made, product, production
5. the responsibility to do something
- it is their job to print the truth
Definition categories: act, duty, obligation, responsibility
6. the performance of a piece of work
- she did an outstanding job as Ophelia
- he gave it up as a bad job
Definition categories: act, work
7. a damaging piece of work
- dry rot did the job of destroying the barn
- the barber did a real job on my hair
Definition categories: act, work
8. a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved
- it is always a job to contact him
Similar word(s): problem
Definition categories: state, difficulty
9. a Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him
Definition categories: person
10. any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing
Definition categories: person, unfortunate
11. (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit
Definition categories: communication, application
12. a book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply
Definition categories: communication
13. a crime (especially a robbery)
- the gang pulled off a bank job in St. Louis
Similar word(s): caper
Definition categories: act, robbery
Sentences with job as a noun:
- I've got a job for you - could you wash the dishes?
- That surgeon has a great job.
- He's been out of a job since being made redundant in January.
- He had had a nose job.
verb
1. profit privately from public office and official business
Definition categories: social, cheat, chisel
2. arranged for contracted work to be done by others
Similar word(s): subcontract
Definition categories: social, employ, engage, hire
3. work occasionally
- As a student I jobbed during the semester breaks
Definition categories: social, work
4. invest at a risk
Similar word(s): speculate
Definition categories: possession, commit, invest, place, put
Sentences with job as a verb:
- We wanted to sell a turnkey plant, but they jobbed out the contract to small firms.