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