job

/dʒˈɑb/ · 1 syllable

Meaning

noun

the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
“he's not in my line of business”
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”
a workplace; as in the expression `on the job'
an object worked on; a result produced by working
“he held the job in his left hand and worked on it with his right”
the responsibility to do something
“it is their job to print the truth”
the performance of a piece of work
“she did an outstanding job as Ophelia”
a damaging piece of work
“dry rot did the job of destroying the barn”
a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved
“she and her husband are having problems”
a Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him
any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing
(computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit
a book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply

verb

profit privately from public office and official business
arranged for contracted work to be done by others
work occasionally
“As a student I jobbed during the semester breaks”
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”

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