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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

... to him): Mr. Bernick, have you ever realised what discharging an old workman means? You think he can look about for another job? Oh, yes, he can do that; but does that dispose of the matter? You should just be there once, in the house of a workman who has been discharged, the evening he comes home bringing all ...

— Pillars of Society • Henrik Ibsen

... is good to see thee tilting, King's Son. I doubt me I shall never learn thy downright thrust. Dost thou remember how sorry a job I made of it, when we met in the lists at Vale ...

— The Well at the World's End • William Morris

... their job," he concluded after a silence. "I'm going to bed; but I would like a leave of absence to-morrow ...

— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930 • Various

... ways among all peoples, savages included. See Schwartz, Urspung der Mythologie; J. Fergusson, Tree and Serpent Worship; Herbert Spencer, The Origin of Animal Worship; Maury, Religions de la Grece Antique. They also appeared among the Hebrew and kindred races. We find in the book of Job that God "by His spirit had garnished the heavens; His hand has formed the crooked serpent" (Job xxvi. 13), expressions which are almost Vedic. From celestial phenomena the myth of the Apollo Serpent descended to impersonate the phenomena of earth, of which we have examples ...

— Myth and Science - An Essay • Tito Vignoli

... I had the fellow report to my office, and instinctively feeling that I wanted to show my gratitude, without being patronizing, he responded to my question as to what I could do to reward him, by asking simply that I get him some job that would allow him to attend night school. He stated that, owing to the fact that he worked alternate weeks at night shift he was unable to do so. Questioning him further, I learned ...

— T. Haviland Hicks Senior • J. Raymond Elderdice

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