Meaning of job in English

  1. Pronunciation

    /dʒɑb/

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  1. Verb

    job

    Etymology

    late Middle English: apparently symbolic of a brief forceful action (compare with jab)

    Definitions

    1. profit privately from public office and official business
  2. 2. arranged for contracted work to be done by others
  3. 3. work occasionally

    Examples

    • « As a student I jobbed during the semester breaks »
  4. 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 »

  5. Noun

    job

    Etymology

    mid 16th century (in job (sense 2 of the noun)): of unknown origin

    Definitions

    1. the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money

    Examples

    • « he's not in my line of business »
  6. 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 »
  7. 3. the performance of a piece of work

    Examples

    • « she did an outstanding job as Ophelia »
    • « he gave it up as a bad job »
  8. 4. the responsibility to do something

    Examples

    • « it is their job to print the truth »
  9. 5. a workplace

    Examples

    • « as in the expression on the job; »
  10. 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 »
  11. 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 »
  12. 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 »
  13. 9. a crime (especially a robbery)

    Examples

    • « the gang pulled off a bank job in St. Louis »
  14. 10. a Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him
  15. 11. any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing
  16. 12. (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit
  17. 13. a book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply
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