job
The definition of a job is the work you do to earn money.
(noun)An example of a job is working at a gas station.
Job means a task or working on one specific project.
(noun)- An example of a job is cleaning the bathroom.
- An example of a job is a contractor agreeing to redo a bathroom.
Job is defined as 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
- the action of doing a task, duty, or piece of work
- 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
Origin: < ?
adjective
intransitive verb jobbed, jobbing
- to do odd jobs
- to act as a jobber or broker
- Chiefly Brit. to do public or official business dishonestly for private gain
transitive verb
- to buy and sell (goods) as wholesaler; handle as middleman
- to let or sublet (work, contracts, etc.)
- to hire or let for hire, as a horse or carriage
- Slang to deceive; trick; cheat
- Chiefly Brit. to transact (public business) dishonestly for private gain
noun
- a man who endured much suffering but did not lose his faith in God
- the book telling of him: abbrev. Jb
Origin: LL(Ec) < Gr(Ec) Iōb < Heb 'Iyyōbh
See job in American Heritage Dictionary 4
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.
- To work at odd jobs.
- To work by the piece.
- To act as a jobber.
- To purchase (merchandise) from manufacturers and sell it to retailers.
- To arrange for (contracted work) to be done in portions by others; subcontract.
- To transact (official business) dishonestly for private profit.
Origin:
Origin: Perhaps from obsolete jobbe, piece
Origin: , alteration of Middle English gobbe, lump; see gob1
.tr. & intr.v. jobbed jobbed, job·bing, jobs
Origin:
Origin: Middle English jobben
Origin: , of imitative origin
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Origin:
Origin: Hebrew ’iyyôb; see אb in Semitic roots
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