Job Definition
- To damage, harm, or worsen:
The stylist did a real job on my hair.
- To defecate on.
- Paying close attention; on the alert.
- At work; at one's place of business:
Employees are not allowed to smoke while on the job.
- miscellaneous tasks or pieces of work
- (while) working at one's job
- attentive to one's task or duty
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Job
- do a job on
- on the job
- odd jobs
- on the job
Origin of Job
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From the phrase jobbe of work "piece of work", from Middle English jobbe (“piece, article”). Of uncertain origin. Perhaps related to Middle English gobbe "lump, mouthful", Middle English jobben (“to jab, thrust, peck”), or Middle English choppe (“piece, bargain”). More at gob, jab, chop
From Wiktionary
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Perhaps from obsolete jobbe piece alteration of Middle English gobbe lump gob1
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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Hebrew אִיּוֹב (iyobh, “hated”), from אָיַב (ayyabh, “he was hostile to”).
From Wiktionary
Middle English jobben of imitative origin
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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Hebrew ’iyyôb ℵb in Semitic roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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