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Job   /dʒɑb/  /dʒoʊb/   Listen
Job

noun
1.
The principal activity in your life that you do to earn money.  Synonyms: business, line, line of work, occupation.
2.
A specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee.  Synonyms: chore, task.  "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.
4.
An object worked on; a result produced by working.
5.
The responsibility to do something.
6.
The performance of a piece of work.  "He gave it up as a bad job"
7.
A damaging piece of work.  "The barber did a real job on my hair"
8.
A state of difficulty that needs to be resolved.  Synonym: problem.  "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.  Synonym: Book of Job.
13.
A crime (especially a robbery).  Synonym: caper.
verb
(past & past part. jobbed; pres. part. jobbing)
1.
Profit privately from public office and official business.
2.
Arranged for contracted work to be done by others.  Synonyms: farm out, subcontract.
3.
Work occasionally.
4.
Invest at a risk.  Synonym: speculate.



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"Job" Quotes from Famous Books



... I think that was his name - went on pulling while I unrolled the sail. It seemed a complicated job, but I accomplished it at length, and then came the question, which was ...
— Three Men in a Boa • Jerome K. Jerome
... indoor cages, but I must give one of our brindled gnus extra credit for the enterprise and thoroughness that he displayed in wrecking a powerfully-built water-trough, composed of concrete and porcelain. The job was as well done as if it had been the work of a big-horn ram showing off. But that was the only exhibition of its kind ...
— The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals • William T. Hornaday
... glories of darkness, cloven with music of thunder, shrank As the web of the word was unwoven that spake, and the soul's tide sank. And the starshine of midnight that covered Arabia with light as a robe Waxed fiery with utterance that hovered and flamed through the whirlwind on Job. And prophet to prophet and vision to vision made answer sublime, Till the valley of doom and decision was merged in the tides ...
— A Channel Passage and Other Poems - Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles - Swinburne--Vol VI • Algernon Charles Swinburne
... good bit to Mrs Carter's. Her house is comfortable, and she is an amusing creature. Sees jokes, and cheers one up. She teases me about my beset condition, and tries to get me to say things. She calls me Job, and the Fifteen my comforters. Neither witty nor appropriate, but it pleases Mrs Carter. She says the least I can do is to give the nine donors of the nine tea-cloths tea. I frankly told her of the difficulty with Bust, who is inexorable on the matter of etiquette. It will be ...
— A Sheaf of Corn • Mary E. Mann
... Salomon sayith, "Yf that the heavin of heavinis can not comprehend thee, how much less this house that I have buylded." And Job consenteth to the same sentence, saying, "Seing that he is heychtar then the heavins, tharefor what can thow buyld unto him? He is deapar then the hell, then how sall thow know him? He is longar then the earth, and breadar then the sea." So that God can nott be comprehended into ...
— The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) • John Knox


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