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J0046500 (jōb) In the Bible, an upright man whose faith in God survived the test of repeated calamities.

[Hebrew 'iyyôb; see ʔb in Semitic roots.]

Job²

J0046500 (jōb)n. See Table at Bible.

[After Job.]

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J0046300 (jŏb)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.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.Idioms: do a job on1. To damage, harm, or worsen: The stylist did a real job on my hair.2. To defecate on. on the job1. 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.]

job²

J0046300 (jŏb) Chiefly Southern tr. & intr.v. jobbed, job·bing, jobs To jab or make a jab.n. A jab.

[Middle English jobben, of imitative origin.]

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(dʒɒb) n1. an individual piece of work or task2. an occupation; post of employment3. an object worked on or a result produced from working4. a duty or responsibility: her job was to cook the dinner. 5. informal a difficult task or problem: I had a job to contact him. 6. a state of affairs: make the best of a bad job; it's a good job I saw you. 7. informal a damaging piece of work: he really did a job on that. 8. informal a crime, esp a robbery or burglary9. informal an article or specimen: the new car was a nice little job. 10. an instance of jobbery11. (Computer Science) computing a unit of work for a computer consisting of a single complete task submitted by a user12. jobs for the boys appointments given to or created for allies or favourites13. on the job a. actively engaged in one's employmentb. Brit taboo engaged in sexual intercourse14. just the job exactly what was requiredvb, jobs, jobbing or jobbed15. (intr) to work by the piece or at casual jobs16. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) to make a private profit out of (a public office, etc)17. (Stock Exchange) a. to buy and sell (goods or services) as a middleman: he jobs in government surplus. b. Brit to buy and sell stocks and shares as a stockjobber: he jobs in blue chips. 18. (Commerce) (often foll by: out) to apportion (a contract, work, etc) among several contractors, workers, etc[C16: of uncertain origin]

Job

(dʒəʊb) n1. (Bible) Old Testament a. a Jewish patriarch, who maintained his faith in God in spite of the afflictions sent by God to test himb. the book containing Job's pleas to God under these afflictions, attempted explanations of them by his friends, and God's reply to him2. any person who withstands great suffering without despairing

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n., v. jobbed, job•bing,
adj. n. 1. a piece of work, esp. a specific task done as part of the routine of one's occupation or for an agreed price. 2. a post of employment; position. 3. any task or project. 4. a responsibility; duty: It is your job to be on time. 5. the execution or performance of a task: to do a good job. 6. the material or item being worked upon. 7. a state of affairs; matter: to make the best of a bad job. 8. a difficult task: We had a job getting him to agree. 9. Informal. an example of a specific type: That little sports job is a great car. 10. Slang. a theft or similar crime. 11. a public or official act or decision done for improper private gain. 12. a unit of work for a computer. v.i. 13. to work at jobs or odd pieces of work; work by the piece. 14. to do business as a jobber. 15. to turn public business improperly to private gain. v.t. 16. to assign (work, a contract for work, etc.) in separate portions, as to different contractors or workers (often fol. by out). 17. to buy in large quantities from wholesalers or manufacturers and sell to dealers in smaller quantities. 18. to swindle or trick. 19. to carry on (public business) for improper private gain. adj. 20. of or for a particular job or transaction. 21. bought, sold, or handled together: to buy in job quantities. Idioms: 1. do a job on, a. to damage or destroy. b. to deceive; snow. 2. on the job, a. while working; at work. b. on the alert. [1620–30; orig. uncertain] syn: See task.

Job

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n. 1. the central figure in an Old Testament parable of the righteous sufferer. 2. a book of the Bible bearing his name.

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Someone's job can be referred to in formal English as their position or post. When advertising or applying for a job, you usually use position or post.

We are looking for someone to fill a senior management position.I am writing to apply for the post of clerical assistant.2. 'job'

In conversation, don't use 'position' or 'post'. Use job.

He's afraid of losing his job.She's got a really interesting job.

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Past participle: jobbed
Gerund: jobbing

Imperative
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job

Present
I job
you job
he/she/it jobs
we job
you job
they job

Preterite
I jobbed
you jobbed
he/she/it jobbed
we jobbed
you jobbed
they jobbed

Present Continuous
I am jobbing
you are jobbing
he/she/it is jobbing
we are jobbing
you are jobbing
they are jobbing

Present Perfect
I have jobbed
you have jobbed
he/she/it has jobbed
we have jobbed
you have jobbed
they have jobbed

Past Continuous
I was jobbing
you were jobbing
he/she/it was jobbing
we were jobbing
you were jobbing
they were jobbing

Past Perfect
I had jobbed
you had jobbed
he/she/it had jobbed
we had jobbed
you had jobbed
they had jobbed

Future
I will job
you will job
he/she/it will job
we will job
you will job
they will job

Future Perfect
I will have jobbed
you will have jobbed
he/she/it will have jobbed
we will have jobbed
you will have jobbed
they will have jobbed

Future Continuous
I will be jobbing
you will be jobbing
he/she/it will be jobbing
we will be jobbing
you will be jobbing
they will be jobbing

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been jobbing
you have been jobbing
he/she/it has been jobbing
we have been jobbing
you have been jobbing
they have been jobbing

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been jobbing
you will have been jobbing
he/she/it will have been jobbing
we will have been jobbing
you will have been jobbing
they will have been jobbing

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been jobbing
you had been jobbing
he/she/it had been jobbing
we had been jobbing
you had been jobbing
they had been jobbing

Conditional
I would job
you would job
he/she/it would job
we would job
you would job
they would job

Past Conditional
I would have jobbed
you would have jobbed
he/she/it would have jobbed
we would have jobbed
you would have jobbed
they would have jobbed

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	job - the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money; "he's not in my line of business"line of work, occupation, business, lineactivity - any specific behavior; "they avoided all recreational activity"confectionery - the occupation and skills of a confectionersport - the occupation of athletes who compete for payfarming, land - agriculture considered as an occupation or way of life; "farming is a strenuous life"; "there's no work on the land any more"biz, game - your occupation or line of work; "he's in the plumbing game"; "she's in show biz"calling, career, vocation - the particular occupation for which you are trainedemployment, work - the occupation for which you are paid; "he is looking for employment"; "a lot of people are out of work"appointment - the job to which you are (or hope to be) appointed; "he applied for an appointment in the treasury"berth, billet, post, situation, position, office, place, spot - a job in an organization; "he occupied a post in the treasury"salt mine, treadmill - a job involving drudgery and confinementcraft, trade - the skilled practice of a practical occupation; "he learned his trade as an apprentice"profession - an occupation requiring special education (especially in the liberal arts or sciences)metier, medium - an occupation for which you are especially well suited; "in law he found his true metier"accountancy, accounting - the occupation of maintaining and auditing records and preparing financial reports for a businessphotography - the occupation of taking and printing photographs or making moviescatering - providing food and services
	2.	job - 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"chore, taskduty - work that you are obliged to perform for moral or legal reasons; "the duties of the job"ball-breaker, ball-buster - a job or situation that is demanding and arduous and punishing; "Vietnam was a ball-breaker"stint - an individual's prescribed share of work; "her stint as a lifeguard exhausted her"scut work, shitwork - trivial, unrewarding, tedious, dirty, and disagreeable chores; "the hospital hired him to do scut work"
	3.	job - a workplace; as in the expression "on the job";workplace, work - a place where work is done; "he arrived at work early today"
	4.	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"product, production - an artifact that has been created by someone or some process; "they improve their product every year"; "they export most of their agricultural production"
	5.	job - the responsibility to do something; "it is their job to print the truth"duty, obligation, responsibility - the social force that binds you to the courses of action demanded by that force; "we must instill a sense of duty in our children"; "every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty"- John D.Rockefeller Jr
	6.	job - the performance of a piece of work; "she did an outstanding job as Ophelia"; "he gave it up as a bad job"work - activity directed toward making or doing something; "she checked several points needing further work"
	7.	job - a damaging piece of work; "dry rot did the job of destroying the barn"; "the barber did a real job on my hair"work - activity directed toward making or doing something; "she checked several points needing further work"
	8.	job - 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"problemdifficulty - a condition or state of affairs almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring great effort to bear or overcome; "grappling with financial difficulties"race problem - a social and political problem caused by conflict between races occupying the same or adjacent regionsbalance-of-payments problem - an economic problem caused by payments for imports being greater than receipts for exports
	9.	Job - a Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him
	10.	Job - any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairingunfortunate, unfortunate person - a person who suffers misfortune
	11.	job - (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unitcomputer science, computing - the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structuresapplication program, applications programme, application - a program that gives a computer instructions that provide the user with tools to accomplish a task; "he has tried several different word processing applications"
	12.	Job - a book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's replyBook of JobOld Testament - the collection of books comprising the sacred scripture of the Hebrews and recording their history as the chosen people; the first half of the Christian BibleHagiographa, Ketubim, Writings - the third of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures
	13.	job - a crime (especially a robbery); "the gang pulled off a bank job in St. Louis"caperrobbery - larceny by threat of violence
Verb	1.	job - profit privately from public office and official businesschisel, cheat - engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud; "Who's chiseling on the side?"
	2.	job - arranged for contracted work to be done by othersfarm out, subcontracthire, employ, engage - engage or hire for work; "They hired two new secretaries in the department"; "How many people has she employed?"
	3.	job - work occasionally; "As a student I jobbed during the semester breaks"do work, work - be employed; "Is your husband working again?"; "My wife never worked"; "Do you want to work after the age of 60?"; "She never did any work because she inherited a lot of money"; "She works as a waitress to put herself through college"
	4.	job - 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"speculateinvest, commit, put, place - make an investment; "Put money into bonds"bull - try to raise the price of stocks through speculative buying

job

noun1. position, post, function, capacity, work, posting, calling, place, business, office, trade, field, career, situation, activity, employment, appointment, craft, profession, occupation, placement, vocation, livelihood, métier the pressure of being the first woman in the job2. task, concern, duty, charge, work, business, role, operation, affair, responsibility, function, contribution, venture, enterprise, undertaking, pursuit, assignment, stint, chore, errand Their main job is to preserve health rather than treat illness.3. (Informal) difficulty, problem, hassle (informal), trouble, hard work With all these different pensions, you're going to have a job to keep track.jobs for the boys cronyism, favouritism, nepotism a `jobs for the boys' system of governmentjust the job perfect, excellent, ideal, supreme, superb, splendid, sublime, superlative This bag is just the job for travelling.Quotations
"If you have a job without aggravations, you don't have a job" [Malcolm S. Forbes]
"Everyone sees life through their job. To the doctor the world is a hospital, to the broker it is a stock exchange, to the lawyer a vast criminal court" [Alasdair Gray Janine]
"McJob: A low-pay, low-prestige, low-dignity, low-benefit, no-future job in the service sector" [Douglas Coupland Generation X]

job

noun1. Activity pursued as a livelihood:art, business, calling, career, craft, employment, line, métier, occupation, profession, pursuit, trade, vocation, work.Slang: racket.Archaic: employ.2. A post of employment:appointment, berth, billet, office, place, position, situation, slot, spot.Slang: gig.3. A piece of work that has been assigned:assignment, chore, duty, office, stint, task.4. The proper activity of a person or thing:function, purpose, role, task.5. Informal. A difficult or tedious undertaking:chore, effort, task.

Translations

工作职业

job

(dʒob) noun1. a person's daily work or employment. She has a job as a bank-clerk; Some of the unemployed men have been out of a job for four years.职业2. a piece of work or a task. I have several jobs to do before going to bed.工作give up as a bad job to decide that (something) is not worth doing, or impossible to do, and so stop doing it. 认为某事无成功希望而放弃a good job a lucky or satisfactory state of affairs. It's a good job that she can't hear what you're saying; He has lost his trumpet, and a good job too!幸运事have a job to have difficulty. You'll have a job finishing all this work tonight.有困难just the job entirely suitable. These gloves are just the job for gardening.完全合适make the best of a bad job to do one's best in difficult circumstances. 尽力把损失减到最小

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Job

(jōb), book of the Bible. The book is of unknown authorship and date, although many scholars assign it to a time between 600 B.C. and 400 B.C. A lament in narrative form, the subject is the problem of good and evil in the world: "Why do the just suffer and the wicked flourish?" In the prose prologue Satan obtains God's permission to test the unsuspecting Job, whom God regards as "a perfect and an upright man"; accordingly, all that Job has is destroyed, and he is physically afflicted. The main part of the book is cast in poetic form and consists of speeches by Job and three friends who come to "comfort" him: Job speaks, then each of the three speaks in turn, with Job replying each time; there are three such cycles of discussion, although the third is incomplete. The friends insist alike that Job cannot really be just, as he claims to be, otherwise he would not be suffering as he is. Nevertheless, Job reiterates his innocence of wrong. The sequence changes with the appearance of a fourth speaker, Elihu, who accuses Job of arrogant pride. He in turn is followed by God himself, who speaks out of a storm to convince Job of his ignorance and rebuke him for his questioning. The prose epilogue tells how God rebukes the three friends for their accusations and how happiness is restored to Job. The author did not intend to solve the paradox of the righteous person's suffering, but rather to criticize a philosophy that located the cause of suffering in some supposed moral failure of the sufferer. The texts are certainly imperfect, and there may be serious losses, corruptions, misplacements, or even additions to the original. Some scholars think that the outer prose sections may have been written separately from the passionate verse of the inner section. The book contains many eloquent passages; among them are Job's declaration of faith in the "redeemer," his speech on wisdom, and God's discourse on animals. Job is mentioned elsewhere in the Bible.

Bibliography

See N. C. Habel, Job (1985); L. G. Perdue and W. C. Gilpin, ed., The Voice from the Whirlwind: Interpreting the Book of Job (1991); R. P. Scheindlin, The Book of Job (1998); R. Alter, The Wisdom Books (2010); M. Larrimore, The Book of Job (2013). See also bibliography under Old TestamentOld Testament,
Christian name for the Hebrew Bible, which serves as the first division of the Christian Bible (see New Testament). The designations "Old" and "New" seem to have been adopted after c.A.D.
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What does it mean when you dream about a job?

Dreaming of being at work while asleep signifies either overwork, overinvolvement in one’s job, or a subconscious desire to be more productive in one’s professional life.

job

[jäb] (computer science) A unit of work to be done by the computer; it is a single entity from the standpoint of computer installation management, but may consist of one or more job steps. (industrial engineering) The combination of duties, skills, knowledge, and responsibilities assigned to an individual employee. A work order.

job

1. Same as project. 2. Same as work, 1.

Job

maintains his faith despite severe trials, is finally rewarded by God. [O.T.: Job]See: Faithfulness

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abases self in awe of the Lord. [O.T.: Job 40:3–5; 42:1–6]See: Humility

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underwent trial by God at Satan’s suggestion. [O.T.: Job]See: Patience

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lost everything he owned to Satan. [O.T.: Job]See: Poverty

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beset with calamities. [O.T.: Job 1:13–22; 2:6–10]See: Suffering

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tormented to test devoutness. [O.T.: Job 1, 2]See: Test

job

Computing a unit of work for a computer consisting of a single complete task submitted by a user

Job

Old Testamenta. a Jewish patriarch, who maintained his faith in God in spite of the afflictions sent by God to test him b. the book containing Job's pleas to God under these afflictions, attempted explanations of them by his friends, and God's reply to him

job

(operating system)All activities involved in completing anyproject on a computer from start to finish. A job may involveseveral processes and several programs.

This term originates from a time when a user would manuallysubmit a job as a deck of punched cards which wouldtypically include source code interspersed with job control language instructions to guide phases of the job such ascompilation, linking, execution and printing.

job

A unit of work running in the computer. A job may be a single program or a group of programs that work together. Jobs can be batch programs scheduled to run at a specific time or programs that interact with users and stay in the computer all day. See also job descriptions.

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noun position

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phrase jobs for the boys

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noun activity pursued as a livelihood

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noun a post of employment

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noun a piece of work that has been assigned

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noun the proper activity of a person or thing

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noun the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money

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noun a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee

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noun a workplace

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noun an object worked on

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noun the responsibility to do something

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noun the performance of a piece of work

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noun a damaging piece of work

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