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Definitions of job:

noun: a damaging piece of work
Example: "Dry rot did the job of destroying the barn"
noun: the performance of a piece of work
Example: "She did an outstanding job as Ophelia"
noun: the responsibility to do something
Example: "It is their job to print the truth"
noun: a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee
Example: "Estimates of the city's loss on that job ranged as high as a million dollars"
noun: a workplace
Example: "As in the expression on the job"
noun: an object worked on; a result produced by working
Example: "He held the job in his left hand and worked on it with his right"
noun: a book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply
noun: (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit
noun: any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing
noun: a Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him
noun: a crime (especially a robbery)
Example: "The gang pulled off a bank job in St. Louis"
noun: a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved
Example: "It is always a job to contact him"
noun: the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
verb: work occasionally
Example: "As a student I jobbed during the semester breaks"
verb: profit privately from public office and official business
verb: invest at a risk
verb: arranged for contracted work to be done by others
name: A surname (rare: 1 in 100000 families; popularity rank in the U.S.: #13253)

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Words and phrases that have a meaning related to job: (322 results)
Synonyms:
caper, chore, employment, farm out, problem, speculate, subcontract, task, work

Part of:
old testament

More general:
application, application program, applications programme, book, business, cheat, commit, difficulty, do work, duty, employ, engage, functioning, hebrew, hire, invest, jew, line, line of work, obligation, occupation, operation, performance, place, product, production, put, responsibility, robbery, unfortunate, unfortunate person, workplace

More specific:
appointment, balance-of-payments problem, berth, booking, bull, click, coaching, coaching job, come home, dawn, disagreeable task, engagement, fall into place, get across, get through, navigation, office, penetrate, piecework, position, post, public service, race problem, sailing, salt mine, school assignment, seafaring, service, services, sink in, situation, slot, spot, stint, treadmill, workload

Often used in the same context:
assignment, blow job, boss, career, cash, charge, company, crime, effort, employed, finish, jam, jerk, jobs, meant, money, noise, odd, profession, project, skill, society, tasks, trade, unemployed, vocation, vote, weight, working

Appears in the definition of:
., about, alibi, all too, amateur, amateurish, appliance, apply, appointed, appointee, ask, at the same time, at workp, auspiciously, back door, ball-breaker, ball-buster, billet, blunder, book of job, bounce, bully, bungled, cab, cabinet minister, can-do, charcoal burner, clerkship, clumsy, coerce, comfortable, compiling, contemplate, contract out, contraption, contrivance, convenience, cost, cushy, daytime, dead-end, demanding, demon, depressed, design criteria, desirable, discharged, dismissal, dismissed, dismission, do, dog's breakfast, dog's dinner, double, double dipping, dyer, earn, easy, embitterment, employable, employee, enable, enforcer, engaged, enlisting, estimate, exacting, excellently, exhausting, expert, extension, extracurricular, family, fat, fill, fired, fixer, floater, fluky, force, fringe benefit, full-time, gadget, gismo, give a damn, give up, gizmo, go off half-cocked, hack, hale, hatchet man, home appliance, hour, household appliance, idle, illusive, inauspiciously, incompetent, incompetently, influence, inside, inside job, inside track, interview, job application, job candidate, job control, job-control language, job description, jobholder, jobless, juggle, keep, laid-off, lap, lead, leisure, light, like hell, line personnel, little, low-level, main file, maintenance man, make, man, man-sized, master file, match, mcjob, meter reading, minister, misdo, moonlight, motion study, natural, network, nontechnical, occupational hazard, on-the-job, open, opt, out of work, output, painting, paper feed, paper route, persnickety, pink slip, pink-slipped, point-blank, pressure, properly, prospect, put in, put-up, qualification, qualified, reading, recruitment, region, renounce, rent-free, repairer, repairman, resign, right, rotate, saving, searcher, section, service man, sift, slavish, soft, span, specialized, squeeze, stamper, start, stepping stone, submit, submitter, suffocate, take up, taxi, taxicab, time and motion study, time-and-motion study, time-motion study, time study, traineeship, travel expense, trouble, troubleshooter, trouble shooter, unambitiously, undemanding, unemployment, unglamorous, unintelligent, union, unit, unskilled, unsympathetic, used, vacate, vocational rehabilitation program, widget, woodcutter, workmanlike, work study, work to rule, worry, wrecker

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