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Job

noun

1.

The principal activity in your life that you do to earn money. Synonyms: business, line, line of work, occupation.

2.

A specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee. Synonyms: chore, task. "The job of repairing the engine took several hours" , "The endless task of classifying the samples" , "The farmer's morning chores"

3.

A workplace; as in the expression.

4.

An object worked on; a result produced by working.

5.

The responsibility to do something.

6.

The performance of a piece of work. "He gave it up as a bad job"

7.

A damaging piece of work. "The barber did a real job on my hair"

8.

A state of difficulty that needs to be resolved. Synonym: problem. "It is always a job to contact him" , "Urban problems such as traffic congestion and smog"

9.

A Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him.

10.

Any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing.

11.

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

12.

A book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply. Synonym: Book of Job.

13.

A crime (especially a robbery). Synonym: caper.

verb

(past & past part. jobbed; pres. part. jobbing)

1.

Profit privately from public office and official business.

2.

Arranged for contracted work to be done by others. Synonyms: farm out, subcontract.

3.

Work occasionally.

4.

Invest at a risk. Synonym: speculate.

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"Job" Quotes from Famous Books

... served the good cause, at the peril of my life, people seem to suppose that they have a right to come to me with their money in their hands, when they desire any dirty work done. It is true that I was well paid for that other job; but I would like to melt all the gold and pour it down the throats of those who ...

— The Honor of the Name • Emile Gaboriau

... that serve for nothing, and behind it a canal, very like a horsepond, on which there are fireworks and justs. Altogether it is very pretty; but as there are few nabobs and nabobesses in this country, and as the middling and common people are not much richer than Job when he had lost every thing but his patience, the proprietors are on the point of being ruined, unless the project takes place that is talked of. It is, to oblige Corneille, Racine, and Moli'ere to hold their ...

— Letters of Horace Walpole, V4 • Horace Walpole

... th'owd grocer said, If th' job wor thine, owd lad, An' somdy wanted thee to pay For what tha'd ...

— Yorkshire Ditties, Second Series - To which is added The Cream of Wit and Humour - from his Popular Writings • John Hartley

... stars the green And apple-boughs as knarred as old toads' backs Wear their small roses ere a rose is seen; The building thrush watches old Job who stacks The bright-peeled osiers on the sunny fence, The pent sow grunts to hear him stumping by, And tries to push the bolt and scamper thence, But her ringed snout still ...

— Georgian Poetry 1920-22 • Various

... engraved on a plaque of metal (which still defies analysis) was a hasty job, the English slightly odd, with some evidence of an incomplete understanding of the situation. That the visitors were themselves aware of these deficiencies is indicated by the ...

— The Good Neighbors • Edgar Pangborn

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