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nounPlural jobs dʒɒbdʒɑb 1A paid position of regular employment. the scheme could create 200 jobs Example sentencesExamples - If the jobs go overseas or pay at overseas wages, ambitious people will move to other fields.
- Landing a part-time job on campus as a peer counselor eased her money woes.
- I quit my nine-to-five job and became a professional photographer.
- Kay drifted through a series of dead-end jobs for six years.
- The summer job market for students improved slightly compared with last year.
- He said he wouldn't want to guide a Marine into a low-paying, dead-end job.
- Part of the mystery comes from the fact that the job description is changing.
- Following the job losses announced last week, just over 400 workers would remain.
- If that were to occur surely Pearce would be granted the manager's job on a permanent basis.
- In Kabul, they usually have low-paying, menial jobs such as janitorial work.
- He described it as the " most plum job in the industry".
- When they do something appreciated by the people they serve, job satisfaction soars.
- More than 9,000 manufacturing jobs have been shed across East Lancashire in five years.
- The abject failure to accept that fact only makes the manager's job even harder.
- She has an excellent, high-paying job and even owns her own house.
- The center's database allows job seekers to sign up and manage their accounts.
- Over the past two years 3,665 well-paid factory jobs have left Bloomington.
- At the same time, manufacturing jobs have been exported overseas.
- All the stimulation and conversations made transitioning back to work at my day job quite difficult.
- Just four weeks after her husband's office closed the £40,000-a-year job offer was suddenly withdrawn.
Synonyms position of employment, position, post, situation, place, appointment, posting, placement, day job occupation, profession, trade, career, work, field of work, line of work, line of business, means of livelihood, means of earning a living, walk of life, métier, pursuit, craft vocation, calling vacancy, opening Scottish way informal berth Australian informal grip archaic employ 2A task or piece of work, especially one that is paid. she wants to be left alone to get on with the job Example sentencesExamples - Dye also brought in his own shapers and equipment from other jobs to piece the construction of the course together.
- The biggest job will be the replacement of the floors in the two change rooms.
- It can be used by itself on smaller projects or to supplement big equipment on larger jobs.
- He assumed that role with Atlanta, freeing Cox from the impossible task of doing both jobs.
- Providing workers to do the dirtiest, riskiest jobs has become a big business.
- What jobs or tasks today, or in the past, do not require knowledge?
- Inputting time spent and expenses incurred on jobs, activities or tasks is quick and easy.
- I wrote two pieces tonight for various jobs, but they both are thin, trembling, smelly things.
- Cox has done a smart, thorough job of explaining and contextualizing this unusual figure.
- I think you did a commendable job of explaining how to get started.
- Todd Whitelock also did a great job on the pieces for piano and cello that are on there.
- In other policing roles you only see bits and pieces of some jobs, you don't get to follow them all the way through to the end result.
- A petty thief is seen pulling off a cheap scam on a shopkeeper by a major league con-artist who recruits him for a big job.
- This piece does a nice job at dismantling some of the stunts and action sequences in the film.
- Based on the TV series farm jobs, tasks, rewards, and unseen pieces from the programme were explored.
- We also have a wide range of tasks and jobs to do in lots of different locations and we won't be able to get everyone together.
- His job was to help piece the puzzle together and confirm the fate of the aircrew.
- Somewhere on the long list of jobs is a task to erect a nice little shed in the back garden.
- I think everyone agrees that Warren has done a dismal job of being a Big Brother secret agent.
- The city had promised those who worked there that they would get other jobs once that grim task ended.
Synonyms task, piece of work, assignment, project chore, errand undertaking, venture, operation, enterprise, activity, business, affair Military detail - 2.1 A responsibility or duty.
it's our job to find things out Example sentencesExamples - For years, it had been his responsibility; his lone job, apart from the outside world.
- The council has a duty to do its job and provide adequate services for the community.
- When asked what the most difficult part of his job was, Gayle took a minute to think.
- If the European Commission does its job and is evidence-led, then it is doing its duty.
- This area is in my ward and it is my job to respond to the concerns of residents and raise them with council.
- You are older and wiser and have guided me in the teachings of my job and duties.
- Every good mathematician knows that is the real job of axioms: once stated, they exist to be satisfied.
- Look, nothing makes a man's job easier than when you boldly suggest a date.
- All are equal in the sight of God, however all have different responsibilities and jobs.
- So your job or your responsibility is to look after creation as if you look after your own family.
- Her sole job was to pump the bellows on the furnace to keep it hot.
- It is our job and our duty to promote recycling and we are slowly getting there.
Synonyms responsibility, duty, charge, concern, task role, function, contribution, capacity, mission, commission informal department British informal pigeon dated office - 2.2informal in singular A difficult task.
we thought you'd have a job getting there Example sentencesExamples - If Sligo had lost James Kearins would have had a real job on his hands to try and rally the troops for this one.
- If that's what the local conditions are like then we've got a real job on our hands.
- But to be truthful it is very dull at the moment and it's a real job to motivate myself to study.
- Not that it matters, as they knew who it was, but they had a job trying to piece the scene together.
Synonyms difficult task, problem, trouble, struggle, strain, hard time, trial, bother informal headache, hassle, performance, pain, hard mountain to climb, hard row to hoe - 2.3informal with modifier A procedure to improve the appearance of something.
someone had done a skilful paint job Example sentencesExamples - You finished your paint job but you have some paint left over.
- Other maintenance jobs which will greatly improve the look of your lawn can also be done in spring.
- Right now it's in the basement, spattered with paint, veteran of many home improvement jobs.
- My car is booked for a Warrant of Fitness tomorrow, so let's all keep our extremities crossed that it passes with no big repair jobs.
- The council promised to mount a massive clean-up job and renew lighting panels at the subway on Friday.
- A great wax job and properly fitted skis are a tremendous help when you want good grip.
- This is one of the most satisfying home improvement jobs you can do.
- It is only a five minute job, but it improves the look of the grass immeasurably.
- The church warden was able to carry out a quick repair job and the service went ahead as planned.
- It's the most basic home improvement job, but also the one that delivers the most obvious results.
- 2.4informal A crime, especially a robbery.
a series of daring bank jobs Example sentencesExamples - Lastly, Neo didn't do a good job of providing an interesting mix of burglary tools for the jobs.
- Splashy bank jobs, bombings, high profile murders - and nobody seems to be able to get a grip on it.
- You know the blockers are doing theft jobs when Holmes consistently is getting by the initial wave of defenders.
- Caroline allowed the Guardian to tag along on one of her jobs a burglary in leafy Purley Oaks.
- He kept reappearing in my life to offer me more criminal jobs for money to pay to return.
Synonyms crime, felony raid, robbery, hold-up, burglary, break-in, theft informal stick-up, smash-and-grab (raid) North American informal heist - 2.5Computing An operation or group of operations treated as a single and distinct unit.
this feature allows your computer to queue print jobs Example sentencesExamples - For example, suppose one of root's cron jobs uses Stunnel to send files to a remote rsync process.
- ThinPrint offers software to sort out print jobs in internet and mobile environments.
- The software automatically deploys a small agent program on each computer as scheduled defrag jobs begin.
- In this way you are parallelizing several serial jobs by starting them all at once, each on a different CPU.
- You conceivably can use work queues for jobs other than bottom-half processing, however.
3informal with modifier A thing of a specified kind. the oven is one of those fancy-pants jobs with a convection fan Example sentencesExamples - In Big Blogger's mind there is a camera though - why else would he be decked out in the old bow tie job?
verbjobs, jobbing, jobbed dʒɒbdʒɑb 1usually as adjective jobbingno object Do casual or occasional work. Example sentencesExamples - He was a jobbing photographer (including some years on the Listener's Auckland staff) as much as he was the laureate of Kiwiana.
- For the next two years it's more important to me to do the writing than take on jobbing director work.
- You can then find a way into becoming a jobbing director if that's what you want, but for the first couple you have to have a passion for it.
- People miss out on one key thing about when Bill left music to be a jobbing farmer.
- Before his fateful punch-up, Bardem had been an aspiring painter, part-time stripper and occasional jobbing actor.
- Now, it strikes me that a jobbing wedding-reception caricaturist requires two major attributes in order to achieve success.
- Post-college, he became a jobbing actor within television.
- A jobbing musician, he not only achieved tremendous respect as a jazz artist but he worked with popular African and Caribbean bands as well.
- When a jobbing actress failed to turn up, Kay's wife Susan, then a pharmacist's assistant in Boots, stepped in.
- There are the jobbing comics who do the circuit of the clubs.
- A jobbing New York model, she arrived in London in 1994, after correctly calculating her potential future as ‘a bigger fish in a smaller pond’.
- But double jobbing was not a major problem, he believed.
- But I didn't want to become a jobbing biographer.
- I'm just a jobbing broadcaster who happens to be called Dimbleby, that's all.
- In 1951 he moved to Oxford and with very simple equipment set himself up as a jobbing printer - this was the start of the Fantasy Press.
- ‘I don't think my career has been that amazing because I still see myself as a jobbing actress,’ she said.
- It has to be in language that a jobbing plumber from Paisley can understand.
- The jobbing trade is an important and steadily growing feature of Wheeling's business life.
- So we need to set up a jobbing enterprise where skilled pensioners can do repairs and small jobs reasonably quickly and well.
- ‘I'm just a jobbing actor, really,’ he shrugs, humbly.
2with object Buy and sell (stocks) as a broker-dealer, especially on a small scale. his game plan is to buy in then job the shares on at a profit 3North American informal with object Cheat; betray. he was jobbed by the Justice Department Example sentencesExamples - At this point, with all the hurt and pain of being jilted and jobbed by the BCS system, that's all the Miami Hurricanes can hold on to.
- Two teams from California got totally jobbed.
- After getting jobbed by the BCS system and left out of the 2000 championship game, the Canes won it all in 2001 and lost in the title game in 2002.
- As for Carmelo, I definitely don't feel like he was jobbed.
- Chris Andersen was jobbed by the people scoring the dunks.
- She was as classy as they come in the face of misfortune, so was he when he got jobbed out of a second medal.
4archaic no object Turn a public office or a position of trust to private advantage. if left unfettered he would job
Phrases A euphemistic way of referring to a person being temporarily unemployed. public money should be used to lend a hand to people who find themselves between jobs Example sentencesExamples - We'll also have associate members - former coaches or individuals who are between jobs.
- For some, rebound ventures proved useful bridges between jobs.
- Transitional tax credits, permitting workers to carry health insurance between jobs.
- Few will enjoy taking their chances on huge matching schemes, risking years of commuting between jobs they didn't really want.
- Blanket cylinder positioning also allows faster clean up, shortening the down time between jobs.
- You spent a fair amount of time at the end of your presentation talking about changes between jobs, et cetera.
- Perhaps you are a student just out of college or a chemist in academia or industry between jobs.
- Welfare benefits, under the present model, are designed to bridge periods between jobs.
- There's a pause, then the guy says, "I think she was between jobs."
- Approximately 37 % of the stay-at-home fathers were in transition between jobs or careers.
informal A euphemistic way of referring to faeces or defecation.
informal Achieve the required result. a piece of board will do the job Example sentencesExamples - It did the job, but requires an extra hole being cut in your boat, plus cumbersome additional steps during fueling.
- The ever-diminishing crew suddenly discover that the nukes on board just will not do the job.
- ‘If the dispersal order does the job, the benches won't be an issue,’ he said.
- It's small, neat and does the job without any fuss.
- Remember the GAA is about clubs and if you're not listening at that level then you're not doing the job.
- But, he explains, it does the job required with a manageable amount of capital and sophistication.
- In most cases, employers want to know if you can do the job and if there is a track record of achievement, he says.
- Not that women can't do the job, just that they tend to do other vital jobs better.
- Not only does he have the ability to do the job, he also has the integrity to do the job.
- The right way to leave any job is to leave knowing that you did the job.
give something up as a bad job informal Decide that it is futile to devote further time or energy to something. he gave the whole thing up as a bad job Example sentencesExamples - Maddy did a few drawings to illustrate it as a present for me, but decided I had written too many peculiar things in it and gave it up as a bad job.
- Finally, though, just as I was about to give the whole expedition up as a bad job, and head for Charing Cross, I found her.
- She even toyed with the notion of racing dogs in Ireland but gave it up as a bad job when she was forced to quarantine two dogs.
- We tried desperately to stop the water coming in but it got a few feet above the door level so we gave it up as a bad job.
- When this bloodletting didn't make him better, they didn't give it up as a bad job.
- But when we got there we gave it up as a bad job - you could not see the water's surface due to the weed.
- It said, ‘Friendly Advice: If at first you don't succeed, better give it up as a bad job.‘
- And fortunately none of us were hurt and we gave it up as a bad job, to bury the cattle.
- We gave it up as a bad job and started to search for the way on.
- I managed to get it out of my eyes, but despite my best attempts, I could not get a trendy spiky-look going, and had to give it up as a bad job.
informal A fortunate fact or circumstance. it was a good job she hadn't brought the car Example sentencesExamples - It's a good job there wasn't a passenger in the car, because that side was badly mangled.
- I guess it's a good job that I am unlikely to be put in charge of any hospitals any time soon.
- So its probably a good job that this is an anonymous blog, or my boss, the Great Leader would tell me off.
- It was a good job for the former Melrose player, who knew that it was a rare chance to impress the selectors.
- It predates Western medicine and has made a good job of maintaining the health of a huge population.
- All I can say is that it is a good job that I am not in charge of a nuclear reactor.
- If we make a good job of achieving this growth, then the company will have better foundations.
- So, it's a good job that I've been very busy this week and so not found much to laugh out loud at.
derogatory Used in reference to the practice of giving paid employment to one's friends, supporters, or relations. it smacks of jobs for the boys Example sentencesExamples - It calls for a register of interests for voluntary organisations so that we can know the extent of Labour nepotism and jobs for the boys.
- Despite legends of Scottish tightness, it was sold very cheaply for cash-in-hand and the promise of jobs for the boys.
- The appointments to the electricity board shows that jobs for the boys is thriving.
- Now the government is reneging on that commitment, to provide jobs for the boys.
- Under privatisation, Bradford is being carved up and shared in deals and jobs for the boys.
- This whole issue stinks and again smacks of jobs for the boys, a trend becoming increasingly popular in rugby league.
- This whole issue should be debated properly before we waste taxpayers' money on so many jobs for the boys.
- Now the Opposition is describing it as jobs for the boys.
- It's jobs for the boys, and jolly lucrative defense contracts for your mother's second cousin once removed.
- Most voters will react badly to this jobs for the boys approach.
informal Exactly what is needed. companionship from fellow walkers was just the job it is just the job for getting rid of stains Example sentencesExamples - If you don't want to mess about with components, however, the Blackberry could be just the job.
- His death, still defiant, still beyond the reach of the infidel, with a video testament to follow, would be just the job.
- The Sunday Times One Minute Business Pitch could be just the job.
- It's just the job, caring about catching people who commit crime.
- This sleek clamshell is just the job for anybody looking for a stylish phone that does what it says on the tin.
- Instead a gentler ascent seemed just the job, so I opted for the short, three-hour round trip to the top of 2,861-foot Moel Siabod, above Capel Curig.
- My tough little four-wheel-drive is just the job for Scotland's roads in the 21st century, crashing through the potholes with gay abandon.
- His healing hands were just the job to recharge ailing volunteers who slaved throughout the contest, often in bad weather conditions.
- Don't Dress For Dinner is just the job for cheering people up.
- This route in the western Dales seemed just the job for a long summer's day.
Synonyms the very thing, just the thing, just right, exactly what's needed
learning on the job should be part of studying Example sentencesExamples - Eichmann was adept at learning practical skills on the job, under the tutelage of seniors he respected.
- Factories often force employees to work overtime or stay on the job for weeks without a day off.
- Wong said every government employee should stay on the job and serve the public.
- We weren't the most dedicated employees, so we did a bit of learning on the job.
- Six years into its tenure, this is a government that gives the impression of learning on the job.
- One of the requirements in the programmes is that employees wear earmuffs on the job.
- The only way to increase the margins of auditing is to send the most junior people on the job and wrap it up quick.
- William Burke was a New York firefighter who died on the job at the World Trade Center.
- Pixo gives their new employees a vacation in Hawaii for their first week on the job.
- CNN reports on a Coca Cola employee who was allegedly fired for drinking Pepsi while on the job.
- 1.1British informal Engaged in sexual intercourse.
Example sentencesExamples - Anyway, a young couple seems to have webcammed themselves on the job - deliberately or not.
he has been out of a job for some time she could find herself out of a job Example sentencesExamples - If these workers were to ask for the same working conditions as workers here they would be out of a job very quickly.
- In less than a month I'll be out of a job because the season is closing.
- Sadly, government cutbacks mean dear old Eddie, who's pushing 40, is out of a job.
- Most of the airline's assets in Uganda have been surrendered and all staff members are out of a job.
- The accusations were shown to be false, the case collapsed, but for the next five years Pepys was out of a job.
- Not only are students deprived of the privilege of enjoying a social nightlife on campus, but many students are also out of a job.
- This will be the first year I'll vote and I've been out of a job for almost a year.
- She has been out of a job for more than a year and her unemployment benefits have run out.
- If the elections fail, Kostunica will soon be out of a job.
- Our politicians have no desire to change the status quo for they would be out of a job and all its benefits.
Phrasal Verbs Assign separate elements of a piece of work to different companies or workers. all the work done by the middleman can be jobbed out at a much lower cost
Origin Mid 16th century (in sense 2 of the noun): of unknown origin. Rhymes blob, bob, cob, dob, fob, glob, gob, hob, lob, mob, nob, rob, slob, snob, sob, squab, stob, swab, throb, yob verbjobs, jobbing, jobbed dʒɒbdʒɑb [with object]archaic 1Prod or stab. he prepared to job the huge brute - 1.1 Thrust (something pointed) at or into something.
immediately job a penknife into the throat
nounPlural jobs dʒɒbdʒɑb archaic An act of prodding, thrusting, or wrenching.
Origin Late Middle English: apparently symbolic of a brief forceful action (compare with jab). proper noundʒəʊbdʒoʊb 1(in the Bible) a prosperous man whose patience and piety were tried by undeserved misfortunes, and who, in spite of his bitter lamentations, remained confident in the goodness and justice of God. - 1.1 A book of the Bible telling of Job.
Rhymes daube, enrobe, globe, lobe, probe, robe, strobe noundʒɑbjäb 1A paid position of regular employment. jobs are created in the private sector, not in Washington Example sentencesExamples - Part of the mystery comes from the fact that the job description is changing.
- I quit my nine-to-five job and became a professional photographer.
- In Kabul, they usually have low-paying, menial jobs such as janitorial work.
- When they do something appreciated by the people they serve, job satisfaction soars.
- If the jobs go overseas or pay at overseas wages, ambitious people will move to other fields.
- Following the job losses announced last week, just over 400 workers would remain.
- At the same time, manufacturing jobs have been exported overseas.
- The summer job market for students improved slightly compared with last year.
- Just four weeks after her husband's office closed the £40,000-a-year job offer was suddenly withdrawn.
- Landing a part-time job on campus as a peer counselor eased her money woes.
- He said he wouldn't want to guide a Marine into a low-paying, dead-end job.
- All the stimulation and conversations made transitioning back to work at my day job quite difficult.
- The abject failure to accept that fact only makes the manager's job even harder.
- Over the past two years 3,665 well-paid factory jobs have left Bloomington.
- The center's database allows job seekers to sign up and manage their accounts.
- He described it as the " most plum job in the industry".
- Kay drifted through a series of dead-end jobs for six years.
- If that were to occur surely Pearce would be granted the manager's job on a permanent basis.
- She has an excellent, high-paying job and even owns her own house.
- More than 9,000 manufacturing jobs have been shed across East Lancashire in five years.
Synonyms position of employment, position, post, situation, place, appointment, posting, placement, day job 2A task or piece of work, especially one that is paid. she wants to be left alone to get on with the job you did a good job of explaining Example sentencesExamples - Based on the TV series farm jobs, tasks, rewards, and unseen pieces from the programme were explored.
- I wrote two pieces tonight for various jobs, but they both are thin, trembling, smelly things.
- It can be used by itself on smaller projects or to supplement big equipment on larger jobs.
- A petty thief is seen pulling off a cheap scam on a shopkeeper by a major league con-artist who recruits him for a big job.
- He assumed that role with Atlanta, freeing Cox from the impossible task of doing both jobs.
- I think everyone agrees that Warren has done a dismal job of being a Big Brother secret agent.
- In other policing roles you only see bits and pieces of some jobs, you don't get to follow them all the way through to the end result.
- Cox has done a smart, thorough job of explaining and contextualizing this unusual figure.
- Inputting time spent and expenses incurred on jobs, activities or tasks is quick and easy.
- His job was to help piece the puzzle together and confirm the fate of the aircrew.
- What jobs or tasks today, or in the past, do not require knowledge?
- I think you did a commendable job of explaining how to get started.
- The biggest job will be the replacement of the floors in the two change rooms.
- Todd Whitelock also did a great job on the pieces for piano and cello that are on there.
- Somewhere on the long list of jobs is a task to erect a nice little shed in the back garden.
- Providing workers to do the dirtiest, riskiest jobs has become a big business.
- This piece does a nice job at dismantling some of the stunts and action sequences in the film.
- We also have a wide range of tasks and jobs to do in lots of different locations and we won't be able to get everyone together.
- Dye also brought in his own shapers and equipment from other jobs to piece the construction of the course together.
- The city had promised those who worked there that they would get other jobs once that grim task ended.
Synonyms task, piece of work, assignment, project - 2.1 A responsibility or duty.
it's our job to find things out Example sentencesExamples - All are equal in the sight of God, however all have different responsibilities and jobs.
- Every good mathematician knows that is the real job of axioms: once stated, they exist to be satisfied.
- When asked what the most difficult part of his job was, Gayle took a minute to think.
- This area is in my ward and it is my job to respond to the concerns of residents and raise them with council.
- For years, it had been his responsibility; his lone job, apart from the outside world.
- So your job or your responsibility is to look after creation as if you look after your own family.
- Look, nothing makes a man's job easier than when you boldly suggest a date.
- Her sole job was to pump the bellows on the furnace to keep it hot.
- The council has a duty to do its job and provide adequate services for the community.
- You are older and wiser and have guided me in the teachings of my job and duties.
- If the European Commission does its job and is evidence-led, then it is doing its duty.
- It is our job and our duty to promote recycling and we are slowly getting there.
Synonyms responsibility, duty, charge, concern, task - 2.2informal in singular A difficult task.
we thought you'd have a job getting there Example sentencesExamples - Not that it matters, as they knew who it was, but they had a job trying to piece the scene together.
- If Sligo had lost James Kearins would have had a real job on his hands to try and rally the troops for this one.
- But to be truthful it is very dull at the moment and it's a real job to motivate myself to study.
- If that's what the local conditions are like then we've got a real job on our hands.
Synonyms difficult task, problem, trouble, struggle, strain, hard time, trial, bother - 2.3informal with modifier A procedure to improve the appearance of something, especially an operation involving plastic surgery.
someone had done a skillful paint job Example sentencesExamples - This is one of the most satisfying home improvement jobs you can do.
- It is only a five minute job, but it improves the look of the grass immeasurably.
- The church warden was able to carry out a quick repair job and the service went ahead as planned.
- It's the most basic home improvement job, but also the one that delivers the most obvious results.
- Other maintenance jobs which will greatly improve the look of your lawn can also be done in spring.
- The council promised to mount a massive clean-up job and renew lighting panels at the subway on Friday.
- Right now it's in the basement, spattered with paint, veteran of many home improvement jobs.
- My car is booked for a Warrant of Fitness tomorrow, so let's all keep our extremities crossed that it passes with no big repair jobs.
- You finished your paint job but you have some paint left over.
- A great wax job and properly fitted skis are a tremendous help when you want good grip.
- 2.4informal A crime, especially a robbery.
a series of daring bank jobs Example sentencesExamples - Splashy bank jobs, bombings, high profile murders - and nobody seems to be able to get a grip on it.
- Caroline allowed the Guardian to tag along on one of her jobs a burglary in leafy Purley Oaks.
- He kept reappearing in my life to offer me more criminal jobs for money to pay to return.
- Lastly, Neo didn't do a good job of providing an interesting mix of burglary tools for the jobs.
- You know the blockers are doing theft jobs when Holmes consistently is getting by the initial wave of defenders.
- 2.5Computing An operation or group of operations treated as a single and distinct unit.
Example sentencesExamples - For example, suppose one of root's cron jobs uses Stunnel to send files to a remote rsync process.
- You conceivably can use work queues for jobs other than bottom-half processing, however.
- ThinPrint offers software to sort out print jobs in internet and mobile environments.
- The software automatically deploys a small agent program on each computer as scheduled defrag jobs begin.
- In this way you are parallelizing several serial jobs by starting them all at once, each on a different CPU.
3informal with modifier A thing of a specified kind. the car was a blue malevolent-looking job Example sentencesExamples - In Big Blogger's mind there is a camera though - why else would he be decked out in the old bow tie job?
verbdʒɑbjäb 1usually as adjective jobbingno object Do casual or occasional work. Example sentencesExamples - For the next two years it's more important to me to do the writing than take on jobbing director work.
- When a jobbing actress failed to turn up, Kay's wife Susan, then a pharmacist's assistant in Boots, stepped in.
- In 1951 he moved to Oxford and with very simple equipment set himself up as a jobbing printer - this was the start of the Fantasy Press.
- It has to be in language that a jobbing plumber from Paisley can understand.
- ‘I don't think my career has been that amazing because I still see myself as a jobbing actress,’ she said.
- You can then find a way into becoming a jobbing director if that's what you want, but for the first couple you have to have a passion for it.
- The jobbing trade is an important and steadily growing feature of Wheeling's business life.
- Before his fateful punch-up, Bardem had been an aspiring painter, part-time stripper and occasional jobbing actor.
- Post-college, he became a jobbing actor within television.
- He was a jobbing photographer (including some years on the Listener's Auckland staff) as much as he was the laureate of Kiwiana.
- Now, it strikes me that a jobbing wedding-reception caricaturist requires two major attributes in order to achieve success.
- There are the jobbing comics who do the circuit of the clubs.
- But I didn't want to become a jobbing biographer.
- ‘I'm just a jobbing actor, really,’ he shrugs, humbly.
- A jobbing New York model, she arrived in London in 1994, after correctly calculating her potential future as ‘a bigger fish in a smaller pond’.
- A jobbing musician, he not only achieved tremendous respect as a jazz artist but he worked with popular African and Caribbean bands as well.
- I'm just a jobbing broadcaster who happens to be called Dimbleby, that's all.
- So we need to set up a jobbing enterprise where skilled pensioners can do repairs and small jobs reasonably quickly and well.
- People miss out on one key thing about when Bill left music to be a jobbing farmer.
- But double jobbing was not a major problem, he believed.
2with object Buy and sell (stocks) as a broker-dealer, especially on a small scale. 3North American informal with object Cheat; betray. Example sentencesExamples - After getting jobbed by the BCS system and left out of the 2000 championship game, the Canes won it all in 2001 and lost in the title game in 2002.
- Chris Andersen was jobbed by the people scoring the dunks.
- As for Carmelo, I definitely don't feel like he was jobbed.
- She was as classy as they come in the face of misfortune, so was he when he got jobbed out of a second medal.
- Two teams from California got totally jobbed.
- At this point, with all the hurt and pain of being jilted and jobbed by the BCS system, that's all the Miami Hurricanes can hold on to.
4archaic no object Turn a public office or a position of trust to private advantage.
Phrases informal Achieve the required result. a piece of board will do the job Example sentencesExamples - The ever-diminishing crew suddenly discover that the nukes on board just will not do the job.
- Not that women can't do the job, just that they tend to do other vital jobs better.
- Not only does he have the ability to do the job, he also has the integrity to do the job.
- It did the job, but requires an extra hole being cut in your boat, plus cumbersome additional steps during fueling.
- ‘If the dispersal order does the job, the benches won't be an issue,’ he said.
- The right way to leave any job is to leave knowing that you did the job.
- Remember the GAA is about clubs and if you're not listening at that level then you're not doing the job.
- It's small, neat and does the job without any fuss.
- But, he explains, it does the job required with a manageable amount of capital and sophistication.
- In most cases, employers want to know if you can do the job and if there is a track record of achievement, he says.
informal A fortunate fact or circumstance. it was a good job she hadn't brought the car Example sentencesExamples - So, it's a good job that I've been very busy this week and so not found much to laugh out loud at.
- It was a good job for the former Melrose player, who knew that it was a rare chance to impress the selectors.
- If we make a good job of achieving this growth, then the company will have better foundations.
- All I can say is that it is a good job that I am not in charge of a nuclear reactor.
- It predates Western medicine and has made a good job of maintaining the health of a huge population.
- So its probably a good job that this is an anonymous blog, or my boss, the Great Leader would tell me off.
- I guess it's a good job that I am unlikely to be put in charge of any hospitals any time soon.
- It's a good job there wasn't a passenger in the car, because that side was badly mangled.
Example sentencesExamples - Factories often force employees to work overtime or stay on the job for weeks without a day off.
- We weren't the most dedicated employees, so we did a bit of learning on the job.
- Wong said every government employee should stay on the job and serve the public.
- Pixo gives their new employees a vacation in Hawaii for their first week on the job.
- Six years into its tenure, this is a government that gives the impression of learning on the job.
- The only way to increase the margins of auditing is to send the most junior people on the job and wrap it up quick.
- CNN reports on a Coca Cola employee who was allegedly fired for drinking Pepsi while on the job.
- William Burke was a New York firefighter who died on the job at the World Trade Center.
- Eichmann was adept at learning practical skills on the job, under the tutelage of seniors he respected.
- One of the requirements in the programmes is that employees wear earmuffs on the job.
Example sentencesExamples - The accusations were shown to be false, the case collapsed, but for the next five years Pepys was out of a job.
- In less than a month I'll be out of a job because the season is closing.
- Most of the airline's assets in Uganda have been surrendered and all staff members are out of a job.
- Not only are students deprived of the privilege of enjoying a social nightlife on campus, but many students are also out of a job.
- If the elections fail, Kostunica will soon be out of a job.
- Sadly, government cutbacks mean dear old Eddie, who's pushing 40, is out of a job.
- Our politicians have no desire to change the status quo for they would be out of a job and all its benefits.
- She has been out of a job for more than a year and her unemployment benefits have run out.
- If these workers were to ask for the same working conditions as workers here they would be out of a job very quickly.
- This will be the first year I'll vote and I've been out of a job for almost a year.
informal Do something that harms or defeats an opponent. I go out and do a job on anyone who is giving our top scorers a hard time Example sentencesExamples - We gave it up as a bad job and started to search for the way on.
- We tried desperately to stop the water coming in but it got a few feet above the door level so we gave it up as a bad job.
- When this bloodletting didn't make him better, they didn't give it up as a bad job.
- But when we got there we gave it up as a bad job - you could not see the water's surface due to the weed.
- It said, ‘Friendly Advice: If at first you don't succeed, better give it up as a bad job.‘
- And fortunately none of us were hurt and we gave it up as a bad job, to bury the cattle.
- Maddy did a few drawings to illustrate it as a present for me, but decided I had written too many peculiar things in it and gave it up as a bad job.
- I managed to get it out of my eyes, but despite my best attempts, I could not get a trendy spiky-look going, and had to give it up as a bad job.
- She even toyed with the notion of racing dogs in Ireland but gave it up as a bad job when she was forced to quarantine two dogs.
- Finally, though, just as I was about to give the whole expedition up as a bad job, and head for Charing Cross, I found her.
Phrasal Verbs Assign separate elements of a piece of work to different companies, contractors, or workers. all the work done by the middleman can be jobbed out at a much lower cost
Origin Mid 16th century (in job (sense 2 of the noun)): of unknown origin. verbdʒɑbjäb [with object]archaic 1Prod or stab. he prepared to job the huge brute - 1.1 Thrust (something pointed) at or into something.
noundʒɑbjäb archaic An act of prodding, thrusting, or wrenching.
Origin Late Middle English: apparently symbolic of a brief forceful action (compare with jab). proper noundʒoʊbjōb 1(in the Bible) a prosperous man whose patience and piety were tried by undeserved misfortunes, and who, in spite of his bitter lamentations, remained confident in the goodness and justice of God. - 1.1 A book of the Bible telling of Job.
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