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job
noun(job)
a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee
Synonyms: chore, task,
Examples:
Estimates of the city's loss on that job ranged as high as a million dollars.
The job of repairing the engine took several hours.
job
noun(job)
a crime (especially a robbery)
Synonyms: caper,
Examples:
The gang pulled off a bank job in St. Louis.
job
verb(job)
invest at a risk
Synonyms: speculate,
job
noun(job)
the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
Synonyms: business, line, line of work, occupation,
job
verb(job)
arranged for contracted work to be done by others
Synonyms: farm out, subcontract,
job
noun(job)
a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved
Synonyms: problem,
Examples:
It is always a job to contact him.
job
noun(job)
a book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply
Synonyms: book of job,
job
noun(job)
a damaging piece of work
Examples:
Dry rot did the job of destroying the barn.
The barber did a real job on my hair.
job
noun(job)
a Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him
job
noun(job)
an object worked on; a result produced by working
Examples:
He held the job in his left hand and worked on it with his right.
job
noun(job)
any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing
job
noun(job)
a workplace; as in the expression `on the job'
job
noun(job)
(computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit
job
verb(job)
profit privately from public office and official business
job
noun(job)
the performance of a piece of work
Examples:
She did an outstanding job as Ophelia.
He gave it up as a bad job.
job
noun(job)
the responsibility to do something
Examples:
It is their job to print the truth.
job
verb(job)
work occasionally
Examples:
As a student I jobbed during the semester breaks.

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