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jobbing
job 1 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.]
job 2 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.]
Job 1 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.]
Job 2 J0046500 (jōb)n. See Table at Bible.
[After Job.]jobbing (ˈdʒɒbɪŋ) adj (prenominal) working on occasional jobs or by the piece rather than in a regular job: a jobbing gardener. TranslationsEncyclopediaSeejobLegalSeeJobjobbing
jobbing the function of buying and selling FINANCIAL SECURITIES such as STOCKS. SHARES and BONDS on the STOCK MARKET by a dealer who acts as a principal in ‘making a market’ in these securities. See MARKET MAKER. |