job
job
- n the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
- n 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 - n a workplace; as in the expression "on the job";
- n an object worked on; a result produced by working
he held the job in his left hand and worked on it with his right - n the responsibility to do something
it is their job to print the truth - n the performance of a piece of work
she did an outstanding job as Ophelia
he gave it up as a bad job - n a damaging piece of work
dry rot did the job of destroying the barn
the barber did a real job on my hair - n a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved
it is always a job to contact him - n a Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him
- n any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing
- n (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit
- n a book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply
- n a crime (especially a robbery)
the gang pulled off a bank job in St. Louis - v profit privately from public office and official business
- v arranged for contracted work to be done by others
- v work occasionally
As a student I jobbed during the semester breaks - v invest at a risk
- PTI looks at the economy's potential rebound and what it means for the job market.
- Read "Where the Recession Proof Jobs Are".
- A jobs expert identifies the careers that won't be undone by an economic slump.