job¹ /job/

1. Any individual piece of work
2. Any undertaking or employment done for payment or profit
3. An occupation or post
4. Someone's proper business or responsibility
5. A task to be performed by an operating system (computing)
6. A state of affairs (informal)
7. An item or example of a specified kind (informal)
8. A transaction in which private gain is sought under pretence of public service
9. An end accomplished by intrigue or wirepulling
10. A criminal enterprise, esp theft (informal)
11. A surgical procedure to improve or enhance a part of the body (esp in compounds, such as nose job; informal)
12. A hired horse or carriage (obsolete)
13. A job lot

1. Employed, hired or used by the job or for jobs
2. Bought or sold lumped together

1. To do casual jobs
2. To buy and sell, as a broker
3. To practise jobbery

1. To perform as a job
2. To put or carry through by jobbery
3. To deal in, as a broker
4. To hire or let out (esp horses)

jobbˈer noun

1. A person who jobs
2. A person who buys and sells, as a broker
3. A stock-jobber
4. Someone who turns official actions to private advantage
5. A person who employs unfair means to secure some private end
6. A wholesale merchant, esp if selling to retailers (US)

With first, second, etc, denoting someone in, or seeking, their first, second, etc job

jobbˈery noun

1. Jobbing
2. The abuse of public office for private gain
3. Unfair means employed to secure some private end

jobbˈie noun (slang)

A lump of excrement

jobbˈing adjective

Working by the job

1. The doing of jobs
2. Miscellaneous printing-work other than books or newspapers
3. Buying and selling as a broker
4. Stock-jobbing
5. Jobbery

jobˈless adjective

Having no job

(with the) jobless people

jobˈlessness noun

job centre or Jobcentre noun

(also without cap) an office run by the government agency Jobcentre Plus, which provides information about available jobs

job club or Jobˈclub noun

An association directed towards helping the jobless to find employment for themselves through learning and using the required skills, motivation, etc

job control language noun (computing)

A language for writing instructions to control the performance of jobs by an operating system

job description noun

A detailed listing of all the duties, responsibilities, tasks, etc necessary to a specific job

job evaluation noun

A method of working out the relative postion and appropriate salary for the different jobs in an organization by allocating points for the various aspects of each job as listed in the job description

jobˈ-hopping noun

Changing job frequently

job lot noun

1. A collection of odds and ends, esp for sale as one lot
2. Any collection of inferior quality

jobˈ-master noun

A livery-stable keeper who jobs out horses and carriages

job of work noun

A task, bit of work

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