Dictionary Definition
job
Noun
1 the principal activity in your life that you do
to earn money; "he's not in my line of business" [syn: occupation, business, line of
work, line]
2 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" [syn: task, chore]
3 the performance of a piece of work; "she did an
outstanding job as Ophelia"; "he gave it up as a bad job"
4 the responsibility to do something; "it is
their job to print the truth"
5 a workplace; as in the expression "on the
job";
6 an object worked on; 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; "she and her husband are having problems"; "it is always
a job to contact him"; "urban problems such as traffic congestion
and smog" [syn: problem]
8 a damaging piece of work; "dry rot did the job
of destroying the barn"; "the barber did a real job on my
hair"
9 a crime (especially a robbery); "the gang
pulled off a bank job in St. Louis" [syn: caper]
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 [syn: Book of
Job]
Verb
1 profit privately from public office and
official business
2 arranged for contracted work to be done by
others [syn: subcontract, farm out]
3 work occasionally; "As a student I jobbed
during the semester breaks"
4 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" [syn: speculate] [also: jobbing, jobbed]
User Contributed Dictionary
see Job
English
Pronunciation
- , /dʒɒb/, /dZQb/
Noun
- A task.
- I've got a job for you - could you wash the dishes?
- An economic role for which a person is paid.
- That surgeon has a great job.
- In the context of "in noun compounds": Plastic surgery; see e.g. nose job.
Translations
task
- Arabic: مهمة
- Dutch: taak, job
- Finnish: tehtävä, työ
- French: tâche
- German: Job, Aufgabe
- Icelandic: verkefni, verk
- Italian: compito
- Polish: zajęcie
economic role for which a person is paid
Verb
- To work
- In the context of "professional wrestling|_|slang": To take the loss.
Translations
To work.
- Finnish: tehdä työtä, tehdä töitä, työskennellä
- French: travailler
- German: arbeiten, jobben
Derived terms
See also
Extensive Definition
Job may refer to:
- a job
(role) served by a person or thing:
- Employment, where a person is in a long-term relationship to perform a service for an employer
- Occupation
(economic), where a person performs a certain role over a long
period
- Profession, an occupation requiring specialized knowledge
- Vocation, an occupation typically requiring training
- Volunteer, where a person is serving the role without economic gain
- a job opening, a desire by an organization to fill a position
- a task to be performed:
- a building or structure under construction
- Job (software), a scheduled and/or automated task for a computer in a batch processing environment
- a private or government employment
agency:
- Job Corps, a training program administered by the United States Government
- Job Network, a set of employment organizations funded by the Australian Government
- Job (professional wrestling), a wrestling performer who loses a match
- Job's syndrome, another name for the medical condition Hyper IgE syndrome (HIES)
- Job, can be used instead of the word "Thing"
in literature:
- Book of Job, part of the Tanakh or Old Testament
- Job: A Comedy of Justice, a novel by Robert A. Heinlein
- Job (novel), a novel by Joseph Roth
- La Job, a Quebec adaptation of the British cult TV series The Office
- Jobs (Remnants), a major character from K. A. Applegate's Remnants series
- Job, a character from the Preston-Child novel Still Life with Crows
people named Job:
- Job (Bible), the individual for whom the Book of Job was named
- Job, a minor Biblical figure
- Job ben Solomon, a Muslim slave who was a victim of the Atlantic slave trade
- Job Cohen, mayor of Amsterdam
- Job de Roincé (1896-1981), French journalist and writer
people with the family name Job:
- Joseph-Désiré Job
- Steve Jobs, co-founder and CEO of Apple Inc.
See also
job in Arabic: عمل
job in Danish: Job
job in German: Job
job in German: Arbeit
job in Spanish: Trabajo
job in French: Job
job in Italian: JOB
job in Dutch: Job
job in Japanese: ジョブ
job in Polish: Praca
job in Swedish: Arbete
job in Chinese: 工作
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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