Job

/dʒˈɑb/

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Noun
the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money; "he''s not in my line of business"
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"; "the endless task of classifying the samples"; "the farmer''s morning chores"
Noun
a workplace; as in the expression "on the job";
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"
Noun
the responsibility to do something; "it is their job to print the truth"
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the performance of a piece of work; "she did an outstanding job as Ophelia"; "he gave it up as a bad job"
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a damaging piece of work; "dry rot did the job of destroying the barn"; "the barber did a real job on my hair"
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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"
Noun
a Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him
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any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing
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(computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit
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a book in the Old Testament containing Job''s pleas to God about his afflictions and God''s reply
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a crime (especially a robbery); "the gang pulled off a bank job in St. Louis"
Verb
profit privately from public office and official business
Verb
arranged for contracted work to be done by others
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work occasionally; "As a student I jobbed during the semester breaks"
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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"
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