Meaning of job in English
Verb
jobEtymology
late Middle English: apparently symbolic of a brief forceful action (compare with jab)Definitions
1. profit privately from public office and official business- 2. arranged for contracted work to be done by others
- 3. work occasionally
Examples
- « As a student I jobbed during the semester breaks »
- 4. invest at a risk
Examples
- « 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 »
Noun
jobEtymology
mid 16th century (in job (sense 2 of the noun)): of unknown originDefinitions
1. the principal activity in your life that you do to earn moneyExamples
- « he's not in my line of business »
- 2. a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee
Examples
- « 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 »
- « the endless task of classifying the sampl »
- 3. the performance of a piece of work
Examples
- « she did an outstanding job as Ophelia »
- « he gave it up as a bad job »
- 4. the responsibility to do something
Examples
- « it is their job to print the truth »
- 5. a workplace
Examples
- « as in the expression on the job; »
- 6. an object worked on
Examples
- « a result produced by working »
- « he held the job in his left hand and worked on it with his right »
- 7. a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved
Examples
- « she and her husband are having problems »
- « it is always a job to contact him »
- « urban problems such as traffic congestion and smog »
- 8. a damaging piece of work
Examples
- « dry rot did the job of destroying the barn »
- « the barber did a real job on my hair »
- 9. a crime (especially a robbery)
Examples
- « the gang pulled off a bank job in St. Louis »
- 10. a Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him
- 11. any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing
- 12. (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit
- 13. a book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply