job (n.)

  1. 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 ]

  2. any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing

    [ Syn: job ]

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

  4. a book in the Old Testament containing Jobs pleas to God about his afflictions and Gods reply

    [ Syn: job , book of job ]

  5. a crime (especially a robbery); the gang pulled off a bank job in St. Louis

    [ Syn: caper ]

  6. 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

    [ Syn: task , chore ]

  7. a workplace; as in the expression on the job;

  8. an object worked on; a result produced by working; he held the job in his left hand and worked on it with his right'

  9. the responsibility to do something; it is their job to print the truth'

  10. the performance of a piece of work; she did an outstanding job as Ophelia; he gave it up as a bad job'

  11. a damaging piece of work; dry rot did the job of destroying the barn; the barber did a real job on my hair'

  12. 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 ]

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

    [ Syn: job ]

    job (v.)

  1. profit privately from public office and official business

  2. arranged for contracted work to be done by others

    [ Syn: subcontract , farm out ]

  3. work occasionally; As a student I jobbed during the semester breaks'

  4. 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 ]

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