job1
/dʒɒb
/noun
1A paid position of regular employment: the scheme could create 200 jobs a part-time job...
- 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.
- In Kabul, they usually have low-paying, menial jobs such as janitorial work.
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...
- Inputting time spent and expenses incurred on jobs, activities or tasks is quick and easy.
- 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.
Synonyms
task, piece of work, assignment, project;
chore, errand;
undertaking, venture, operation, enterprise, activity, business, affair;
Military detail
2.1A responsibility or duty: it’s our job to find things out...
- This area is in my ward and it is my job to respond to the concerns of residents and raise them with council.
- It is our job and our duty to promote recycling and we are slowly getting there.
- The council has a duty to do its job and provide adequate services for the community.
Synonyms
responsibility, duty, charge, concern, task;
role, function, contribution, capacity, mission, commission
informal department
British informal pigeon
dated office
2.2 [in singular] informal A difficult task: we thought you’d have a job getting there...
- 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
informal headache, hassle, performance, pain, hard mountain to climb, hard row to hoe
2.3 [with modifier] informal A procedure to improve the appearance of something: someone had done a skilful paint job...
- 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.
- It's the most basic home improvement job, but also the one that delivers the most obvious results.
2.4 informal A crime, especially a robbery: a series of daring bank jobs...
- 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.
Synonyms
crime, felony;
raid, robbery, hold-up, burglary, break-in, theft
informal stick-up, smash-and-grab (raid)
North American informal heist
2.5 Computing An operation or group of operations treated as a single and distinct unit: this feature allows your computer to queue print jobs...
- The software automatically deploys a small agent program on each computer as scheduled defrag jobs begin.
- ThinPrint offers software to sort out print jobs in internet and mobile environments.
- You conceivably can use work queues for jobs other than bottom-half processing, however.
3 [with modifier] informal A thing of a specified nature: the car was a blue malevolent-looking job...
- In Big Blogger's mind there is a camera though - why else would he be decked out in the old bow tie job?
verb (jobs, jobbing, jobbed)
1 [no object] (usually as adjective jobbing) Do casual or occasional work: a jobbing builder...
- Before his fateful punch-up, Bardem had been an aspiring painter, part-time stripper and occasional jobbing actor.
- There are the jobbing comics who do the circuit of the clubs.
- So we need to set up a jobbing enterprise where skilled pensioners can do repairs and small jobs reasonably quickly and well.
2 [with 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
3 [with object] North American informal Cheat; betray: he was jobbed by the Justice Department...
- 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.
4 [no object] archaic Turn a public office or a position of trust to private advantage: if left unfettered he would job
Phrases
between jobs
big jobs
do the job
give something up as a bad job
a good job
jobs for the boys
just the job
make the best of a bad job
on the job
out of a job
Phrasal verbs
job something out
Origin
Mid 16th century (in sense 2 of the noun): of unknown origin.
Rhymes
job2
/dʒɒb/archaic
verb (jobs, jobbing, jobbed) [with object]
1Prod or stab: he prepared to job the huge brute
1.1Thrust (something pointed) at or into something: immediately job a penknife into the throat
noun
An act of prodding, thrusting, or wrenching.
Origin
Late Middle English: apparently symbolic of a brief forceful action (compare with jab).
Job3
/dʒəʊb/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.
1.1A book of the Bible telling of Job.