job

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun job has 13 senses

job(n = noun.act) business, line, line of work, occupation - the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money; "he's not in my line of business"

is a kind of activity

has particulars: confectionery, sport, farming, land, biz, game, calling, career, vocation, employment, work, appointment, berth, billet, office, place, position, post, situation, spot, salt mine, treadmill, craft, trade, profession, medium, metier, accountancy, accounting, photography, catering

job(n = noun.act) chore, task - 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"; "the endless task of classifying the samples"; "the farmer's morning chores"

is a kind of duty

has particulars: ball-breaker, ball-buster, stint, scut work, shitwork

Derived forms verb job₃, verb job₂

job(n = noun.artifact) - a workplace; as in the expression; "on the job"

workplace

Derived forms verb job₃, verb job₂

job(n = noun.artifact) - an object worked on; a result produced by working; "he held the job in his left hand and worked on it with his right"

product

production

Derived forms verb job₃, verb job₂

job(n = noun.act) - the responsibility to do something; "it is their job to print the truth"

job(n = noun.act) - the performance of a piece of work; "she did an outstanding job as Ophelia"; "he gave it up as a bad job"

Derived forms verb job₃, verb job₂

job(n = noun.act) - a damaging piece of work; "dry rot did the job of destroying the barn"; "the barber did a real job on my hair"

job(n = noun.state) problem - a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved; "she and her husband are having problems"; "it is always a job to contact him"; "urban problems such as traffic congestion and smog"

is a kind of difficulty

has particulars: race problem, balance-of-payments problem

job(n = noun.person) - a Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him;

hero

job(n = noun.person) - any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing;

unfortunate

unfortunate person

job(n = noun.communication) - (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit;

application

application program

applications programme

job(n = noun.communication) book of job - a book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply;

is a kind of book

is a part of old testament, hagiographa, ketubim, writings

job(n = noun.act) caper - a crime (especially a robbery); "the gang pulled off a bank job in St. Louis"

is a kind of robbery

Verb job has 4 senses

job(v = verb.social) - profit privately from public office and official business;

is one way to

cheat

chisel

Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s

job(v = verb.social) farm out, subcontract - arranged for contracted work to be done by others;

is one way to employ, engage, hire

Derived forms noun job₆, noun job₂, noun job₃, noun job₄

Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody

job(v = verb.social) - work occasionally; "As a student I jobbed during the semester breaks"

is one way to

do work

Derived forms noun job₆, noun job₂, noun job₃, noun job₄

Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s PP

job(v = verb.possession) speculate - invest at a risk; "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"

is one way to commit, invest, place, put

Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

CIDE DICTIONARY

job, n. [Prov. E. job, gob, n., a small piece of wood, v., to stab, strike; cf. E. gob, gobbet; perh. influenced by E. chop to cut off, to mince. See Gob.].

A sudden thrust or stab; a jab. [1913 Webster]
A piece of chance or occasional work; any definite work undertaken in gross for a fixed price; as, he did the job for a thousand dollars. [1913 Webster]
A public transaction done for private profit; something performed ostensibly as a part of official duty, but really for private gain; a corrupt official business. [1913 Webster]
Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately. [1913 Webster]
A situation or opportunity of work; as, he lost his job. [1913 Webster]
A task, or the execution of a task; as, Michelangelo did a great job on the David statue. [PJC]
A task or coordinated set of tasks for a multitasking computer, submitted for processing as a single unit, usually for execution in background. See job control language. [PJC]
" Job is used adjectively to signify doing jobs, used for jobs, or let on hire to do jobs; as, job printer; job master; job horse; job wagon, etc." [1913 Webster]

By the job, at a stipulated sum for the work, or for each piece of work done; -- distinguished from time work; as, the house was built by the job. -- Job lot, a quantity of goods, usually miscellaneous, sold out of the regular course of trade, at a certain price for the whole; as, these articles were included in a job lot. -- Job master, one who lest out horses and carriages for hire, as for family use. [Eng.] -- Job printer, one who does miscellaneous printing, esp. circulars, cards, billheads, etc. -- Odd job, miscellaneous work of a petty kind; occasional work, of various kinds, or for various people. -- to do a job on, to harm badly or destroy. [slang] -- on the job, alert; performing a responsibility well. [slang]

job, v. t.

To strike or stab with a pointed instrument. L'Estrange. [1913 Webster]
To thrust in, as a pointed instrument. Moxon. [1913 Webster]
To do or cause to be done by separate portions or lots; to sublet (work); as, to job a contract. [1913 Webster]
To buy and sell, as a broker; to purchase of importers or manufacturers for the purpose of selling to retailers; as, to job goods. [1913 Webster]
To hire or let by the job or for a period of service; as, to job a carriage. Thackeray. [1913 Webster]

job, v. i.

To do chance work for hire; to work by the piece; to do petty work. [1913 Webster]
"Authors of all work, to job for the season." [1913 Webster]
To seek private gain under pretense of public service; to turn public matters to private advantage. [1913 Webster]
"And judges job, and bishops bite the town." [1913 Webster]
To carry on the business of a jobber in merchandise or stocks. [1913 Webster]

job, n.

The hero of the book of that name in the Old Testament; the prototypical patient man. [1913 Webster]

Job's comforter. (a) A false friend; a tactless or malicious person who, under pretense of sympathy, insinuates rebukes. (b) A boil. [Colloq.] -- Job's news, bad news. Carlyle. -- Job's tears (Bot.), a kind of grass (Coix Lacryma), with hard, shining, pearly grains.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

job, n. & v.
--n.
1 a piece of work, esp. one done for hire or profit.
2 a paid position of employment.
3 colloq. anything one has to do.
4 colloq. a difficult task (had a job to find them).
5 a product of work, esp. if well done.
6 Computing an item of work regarded separately.
7 sl. a crime, esp. a robbery.
8 a transaction in which private advantage prevails over duty or public interest.
9 a state of affairs or set of circumstances (is a bad job).
--v. (jobbed, jobbing)
1 intr. do jobs; do piece-work.
2 a intr. deal in stocks. b tr. buy and sell (stocks or goods) as a middleman.
3 a intr. turn a position of trust to private advantage. b tr. deal corruptly with (a matter).
4 tr. US sl. swindle.

Idiom

job-control language Computing a language enabling the user to determine the tasks to be undertaken by the operating system. job-hunt colloq. seek employment. job lot a miscellaneous group of articles, esp. bought together. jobs for the boys colloq. profitable situations etc. to reward one's supporters. job-sharing an arrangement by which a full-time job is done jointly by several part-time employees who share the remuneration. just the job colloq. exactly what is wanted. make a job (or good job) of do thoroughly or successfully. on the job colloq.
1 at work; in the course of doing a piece of work.
2 engaged in sexual intercourse. out of a job unemployed.

job, v. & n.
--v. (jobbed, jobbing)
1 tr. prod; stab slightly.
2 intr. (foll. by at) thrust.
--n. a prod or thrust; a jerk at a horse's bit.

Etymology

ME, app. imit.: cf. JAB

THESAURUS

job

accomplished fact, accomplishment, achievement, act, acta, action, adventure, affair, appointment, assignment, bamboozle, be in, befool, berth, billet, blow, burglary, business, busywork, calling, capacity, caper, carry, character, chare, charge, charter, chicane, chore, close out, commission, concern, concernment, connection, convert into cash, coup, cut under, deal in, dealings, deed, devoir, doing, doings, dump, duty, effect a sale, effort, employment, endeavor, engagement, enterprise, errand, exercise, exploit, fait accompli, farm, farm out, feat, filch, fish to fry, flimflam, fool, function, gest, gig, go, grab, gull, hand, handiwork, handle, heist, hire, hire out, hoax, homework, incumbency, interest, job of work, labor, lease, lease out, lease-back, lease-lend, lend-lease, let, let off, let out, lift, line, make a sale, make-work, maneuver, market, matter, matters in hand, measure, merchandise, mission, moonlighting, move, niche, occupation, odd job, office, opening, operation, overt act, part, passage, performance, piece of work, pigeon, pinch, place, position, post, posting, proceeding, production, profession, project, province, pursuit, racket, rent, rent out, res gestae, resell, retail, rip-off, robbery, role, sacrifice, second job, sell, sell off, sell on consignment, sell out, sell over, sell retail, sell short, sell up, sell wholesale, service, situation, slot, spot, station, steal, step, stint, stroke, stunt, sublease, sublet, task, tenure, theft, thing, thing done, things to do, tour de force, trade, trade in, traffic in, transaction, turn, turn into money, turn over, undercut, underlet, undersell, undertaking, unload, vacancy, victimize, vocation, wholesale, work, works