job

A job is the work you do to earn money. (noun)

An example of a job is working at a gas station.

A job is a task or working on one specific project. (noun)

Job means the place where you go to work and earn money. (noun)

An example of your job is the office and staff that you work with each day.

A job is a specific illegal task. (noun)

An example of a job is a bank robbery.

See job in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

a specific piece of work, as in one's trade, or done by agreement for pay
anything one has to do; task; chore; duty
the thing or material being worked on
1. the action of doing a task, duty, or piece of work
2. a result or product of such action
☆ a position of employment; situation; work
Informal a criminal act or deed, as a theft, etc.
Informal any happening, affair, matter, object, etc.
Chiefly Brit. a thing done supposedly in the public interest but actually for private gain

adjective

hired or done by the job

intransitive verb jobbed, jobbing

transitive verb

noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb jobbed, jobbing

Dialectal jab

noun

See job in American Heritage Dictionary 4

(jŏb)

noun

A regular activity performed in exchange for payment, especially as one's trade, occupation, or profession.
A position in which one is employed.
a. A task that must be done: Washing the windows is not my job.
b. A specified duty or responsibility. See Synonyms at task.
a. A specific piece of work to be done for a set fee: an expensive repair job.
b. The object to be worked on.
c. Something resulting from or produced by work.
Computer Science A program application that may consist of several steps but is performed as a single logical unit.
Informal A difficult or strenuous task: It was a real job to convince them to drop the charges.
Informal A bad or unsatisfactory piece of work: The stylist did a real job on my hair.
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.
Informal A criminal act, especially a robbery: a bank job.
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.