make the best of a bad job (informal)

To do the best one can in unfavourable circumstances

my bad (US sl)

A phrase used to acknowledge that one has made a mistake

not bad

Fairly good

not half bad (informal)

Pretty good, excellent

take the bad with the good

To accept unpleasant things along with pleasant ones

too bad (informal)

1. What a pity!
2. Regrettable, a shame

to the bad

In deficit

with a bad grace

Ungraciously

job¹ /job/

1. Any individual piece of work
2. Any undertaking or employment done for payment or profit
3. An occupation or post
4. Someone's proper business or responsibility
5. A task to be performed by an operating system (computing)
6. A state of affairs (informal)
7. An item or example of a specified kind (informal)
8. A transaction in which private gain is sought under pretence of public service
9. An end accomplished by intrigue or wirepulling
10. A criminal enterprise, esp theft (informal)
11. A surgical procedure to improve or enhance a part of the body (esp in compounds, such as nose job; informal)
12. A hired horse or carriage (obsolete)
13. A job lot

1. Employed, hired or used by the job or for jobs
2. Bought or sold lumped together

1. To do casual jobs
2. To buy and sell, as a broker
3. To practise jobbery

1. To perform as a job
2. To put or carry through by jobbery
3. To deal in, as a broker
4. To hire or let out (esp horses)

jobbˈer noun

1. A person who jobs
2. A person who buys and sells, as a broker
3. A stock-jobber
4. Someone who turns official actions to private advantage
5. A person who employs unfair means to secure some private end
6. A wholesale merchant, esp if selling to retailers (US)

With first, second, etc, denoting someone in, or seeking, their first, second, etc job

jobbˈery noun

1. Jobbing
2. The abuse of public office for private gain
3. Unfair means employed to secure some private end

jobbˈie noun (slang)

A lump of excrement

jobbˈing adjective

Working by the job

1. The doing of jobs
2. Miscellaneous printing-work other than books or newspapers
3. Buying and selling as a broker
4. Stock-jobbing
5. Jobbery

jobˈless adjective

Having no job

(with the) jobless people

jobˈlessness noun

job centre or Jobcentre noun

(also without cap) an office run by the government agency Jobcentre Plus, which provides information about available jobs

job club or Jobˈclub noun

An association directed towards helping the jobless to find employment for themselves through learning and using the required skills, motivation, etc

job control language noun (computing)

A language for writing instructions to control the performance of jobs by an operating system

job description noun

A detailed listing of all the duties, responsibilities, tasks, etc necessary to a specific job

job evaluation noun

A method of working out the relative postion and appropriate salary for the different jobs in an organization by allocating points for the various aspects of each job as listed in the job description

jobˈ-hopping noun

Changing job frequently

job lot noun

1. A collection of odds and ends, esp for sale as one lot
2. Any collection of inferior quality

jobˈ-master noun

A livery-stable keeper who jobs out horses and carriages

job of work noun

A task, bit of work

job rotation noun

The practice of moving workers from one activity to another in order to provide them with variety and widen their experience

jobˈseeker noun

(also with cap) in Britain since 1996, an unemployed person receiving Jobseeker's Allowance, a state benefit for those actively seeking work

job share, jobˈshare or job sharing noun

The practice of dividing one job between two part-time workers

jobˈ-share intransitive verb

a bad (or good) job

1. A piece of work badly (or well) done
2. An unlucky (or lucky) fact

do the job

To succeed in doing what is required

give something up as a bad job

To abandon a task, etc as impossible or not worthwhile

have a job to (informal)

To have difficulty in

job off

To sell (goods) cheaply to get rid of them

job out

To divide (work) among contractors, etc

jobs for the boys

Jobs given to or created for friends or supporters

just the job (informal)

Exactly what is wanted

make the best of a bad job

To do one's best in difficult circumstances

odd jobs see under odd¹

on the job

1. At work, in activity, busy (onˈ-the-job adjective happening while one is at work)
2. Engaged in sexual intercourse (informal)