Meaning & Definition of Job in English
Job
noun
1. The principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
- "He's not in my line of business"
- occupation,
- business,
- job,
- line of work,
- line
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"
- job,
- task,
- chore
3. A workplace
- As in the expression "on the job"
- 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"
- job
5. The responsibility to do something
- "It is their job to print the truth"
- job
6. The performance of a piece of work
- "She did an outstanding job as ophelia"
- "He gave it up as a bad job"
- 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"
- job
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"
- problem,
- job
9. A jewish hero in the old testament who maintained his faith in god in spite of afflictions that tested him
- Job
10. Any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing
- Job
11. (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit
- job
12. A book in the old testament containing job's pleas to god about his afflictions and god's reply
- Job,
- Book of Job
13. A crime (especially a robbery)
- "The gang pulled off a bank job in st. louis"
- caper,
- job
verb
1. Profit privately from public office and official business
- job
2. Arranged for contracted work to be done by others
- subcontract,
- farm out,
- job
3. Work occasionally
- "As a student i jobbed during the semester breaks"
- job
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"
- speculate,
- job