Meaning & Definition of Job in English

1. The principal activity in your life that you do to earn money

• "He's not in my line of business"

2. 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"

• "The endless task of classifying the samples"

• "The farmer's morning chores"

3. A workplace

• As in the expression "on the job"

4. An object worked on

• A result produced by working

• "He held the job in his left hand and worked on it with his right"

5. The responsibility to do something

• "It is their job to print the truth"

6. The performance of a piece of work

• "She did an outstanding job as ophelia"

• "He gave it up as a bad job"

7. A damaging piece of work

• "Dry rot did the job of destroying the barn"

• "The barber did a real job on my hair"

8. A state of difficulty that needs to be resolved

• "She and her husband are having problems"

• "It is always a job to contact him"

• "Urban problems such as traffic congestion and smog"

9. A jewish hero in the old testament who maintained his faith in god in spite of afflictions that tested him

10. Any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing

11. (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit

12. A book in the old testament containing job's pleas to god about his afflictions and god's reply

13. A crime (especially a robbery)

• "The gang pulled off a bank job in st. louis"

1. Profit privately from public office and official business

2. Arranged for contracted work to be done by others

3. Work occasionally

• "As a student i jobbed during the semester breaks"

4. Invest at a risk

• "I bought this house not because i want to live in it but to sell it later at a good price, so i am speculating"