1. The principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
   - occupation, business, line of work, line 
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"
   - task, chore 
3. A workplace; as in the expression "on the job"; 
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" 
5. The responsibility to do something
   "it is their job to print the truth" 
6. The performance of a piece of work
   "she did an outstanding job as Ophelia"; "he gave it up as a bad job" 
7. A damaging piece of work
   "dry rot did the job of destroying the barn"; "the barber did a real job on my hair" 
8. A state of difficulty that needs to be resolved
   "it is always a job to contact him"
   - problem 
9. (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit 
10. A crime (especially a robbery)
    "the gang pulled off a bank job in St. Louis"
    - caper

1. Profit privately from public office and official business 
2. Arranged for contracted work to be done by others
   - subcontract, farm out 
3. Work occasionally
   "As a student I jobbed during the semester breaks" 
4. Invest at a risk
   - speculate

1. Any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing 
2. A Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him 
3. A book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply
   - Book of Job

Derived forms: Jobs, jobbed, jobbing, jobs

See also: on-the-job

Type of: activity, application, application program, applications programme, book, cheat, chisel, commit, difficulty, do work, duty, employ, engage, hero, hire, invest, obligation, place, product, production, put, responsibility, robbery, unfortunate, unfortunate person, work, workplace

Part of: Hagiographa, Ketubim, Old Testament, Writings

Encyclopedia: Job Job, Puy-de-Dôme Job, a masque for dancing Job, A Comedy of Justice Job, A Parody of Justice

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