job
/dʒɑb/noun, verb1 syllable
Job means: the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money.
Synonyms for job22
noun, as in the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
noun, as in a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee
noun, as in a book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply
noun, as in a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved
noun, as in a crime (especially a robbery)
verb, as in arranged for contracted work to be done by others
verb, as in invest at a risk
also used for job
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What does job mean?17
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 book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply
a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved“she and her husband are having problems”
a crime (especially a robbery)“the gang pulled off a bank job in St. Louis”
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
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”
(computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit
verb
arranged for contracted work to be done by others
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”
profit privately from public office and official business
work occasionally“As a student I jobbed during the semester breaks”
Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What rhymes with job?12
Job in a sentence
- With more education, he would have found a better job.CM
- If you want this job, you must apply for it by tomorrow.CK
- Now that you have finished your job, you are free to go home.CK
- Give us the tools, and we'll finish the job.LimeGreenTeknii
- If anything, my new job is harder than my old one.CK
- That was, as it were, part of the job.CM
- That's a job of your own choosing, isn't it?CM
- Six people applied for the job, but none of them were employed.CM
Sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR, credited to their authors.
Forms of job
as a noun
- plural
- jobs
as a verb
- past tense
- jobbed
- present participle
- jobbing
- third-person singular
- jobs
- past participle
- jobbed