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job
/dʒoʊb/
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  1. noun
    a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee
    "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"

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    chore task
    type of:
    duty
  2. noun
    a crime (especially a robbery)
    "the gang pulled off a bank job in St. Louis"

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    caper
    type of:
    robbery
  3. verb
    invest at a risk

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    speculate
    type of:
    commit place put invest
  4. noun
    the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money

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    business line line of work occupation
    type of:
    activity
  5. verb
    arranged for contracted work to be done by others

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    farm out subcontract
    type of:
    employ hire engage
  6. noun
    a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved
    "it is always a job to contact him"

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    problem
    type of:
    difficulty
  7. noun
    a book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply

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    book of job
  8. noun
    a damaging piece of work
    "dry rot did the job of destroying the barn" "the barber did a real job on my hair"
    type of:
    work
  9. noun
    a Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him
  10. noun
    an object worked on; a result produced by working
    "he held the job in his left hand and worked on it with his right"
    type of:
    product production
  11. noun
    any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing
  12. noun
    a workplace; as in the expression `on the job'
    type of:
    workplace work
  13. noun
    (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit
  14. verb
    profit privately from public office and official business
    type of:
    chisel cheat
  15. noun
    the performance of a piece of work
    "she did an outstanding job as Ophelia" "he gave it up as a bad job"
    type of:
    work
  16. noun
    the responsibility to do something
    "it is their job to print the truth"
  17. verb
    work occasionally
    "As a student I jobbed during the semester breaks"
    type of:
    work do work
Examples of job
  • "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"
  • "the gang pulled off a bank job in St. Louis"
  • "it is always a job to contact him"
  • "dry rot did the job of destroying the barn"
  • "the barber did a real job on my hair"
  • "he held the job in his left hand and worked on it with his right"
  • "she did an outstanding job as Ophelia"
  • "he gave it up as a bad job"
  • "it is their job to print the truth"
  • "As a student I jobbed during the semester breaks"
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