Meaning of job in English

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  1. Pronunciation
  2. Verb
    1. Etymology
    2. Definitions
  3. Noun
    1. Etymology
    2. Definitions

  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

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  3. 3. work occasionally

    Examples

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

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  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 »

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  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 »

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  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 »

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  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 »

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  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; »

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  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 »

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  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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