单词 | job |
释义 | job 1 ![]() n. 1. a. A regular activity performed in exchange for payment, especially as one's trade, occupation, or profession: Her job is doing drug research. b. A position of employment: How many jobs are open at the factory? 2. a. A task that must be done: Let's finish this job before we start another. b. A specified duty or responsibility: Your job is to watch the kids while we're away. See Synonyms at task. c. Informal A difficult or strenuous task: It's a real job getting people to help out at these events. 3. a. A specific piece of work to be done for a set fee: an expensive repair job. b. The object to be worked on: Those overgrown shrubs are a big job. c. Something resulting from or produced by work: I like the job they did on those shrubs. 4. An operation done to improve one's appearance, or the result of such an operation. Often used in combination: a face job. 5. Computers A program application that may consist of several steps but is performed as a single logical unit. 6. Informal A state of affairs: Their marriage was a bad job from the start. It's a good job that we left early to avoid the traffic. 7. Informal A criminal act, especially a robbery: a bank job. 8. Informal An example of a specified type, especially of something made or constructed. Often used in combination: a new building that is just another glass and steel job; a cowboy hat that is one of those ten-gallon jobs. v. jobbed, job·bing, jobs v.intr. 1. To work at odd jobs. 2. To work by the piece. 3. To act as a jobber. v.tr. Idioms: 1. To purchase (merchandise) from manufacturers and sell it to retailers. 2. To arrange for (contracted work) to be done in portions by others; subcontract. 3. To transact (official business) dishonestly for private profit. do a job on 1. To damage, harm, or worsen: The stylist did a real job on my hair. 2. To defecate on. on the job 1. Paying close attention; on the alert. 2. At work; at one's place of business: Employees are not allowed to smoke while on the job. [Perhaps from obsolete jobbe, piece, alteration of Middle English gobbe, lump; see GOB1.] |
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