Job - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |dʒɑːb|  American pronunciation of the word job
Brit.  |dʒɒb|  British pronunciation of the word job

noun

- the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money (syn: business, line, occupation)
- a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee (syn: chore, task)
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
- a workplace; as in the expression `on the job'
- an object worked on; a result produced by working
he held the job in his left hand and worked on it with his right
- the responsibility to do something
it is their job to print the truth
- the performance of a piece of work
she did an outstanding job as Ophelia
he gave it up as a bad job
- a damaging piece of work
dry rot did the job of destroying the barn
the barber did a real job on my hair
- a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved (syn: problem)
it is always a job to contact him
- a Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him
- any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing
- (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit
- a book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply
- a crime (especially a robbery) (syn: caper)
the gang pulled off a bank job in St. Louis

verb

- profit privately from public office and official business
- arranged for contracted work to be done by others (syn: farm out, subcontract)
- work occasionally
As a student I jobbed during the semester breaks
- invest at a risk (syn: speculate)

Extra examples

He took a job as a waiter.

She has a high-paying job on Wall Street.

She's trying to get a job in New York.

The new factory will create thousands of jobs.

They offered him the job but he turned it down.

The blood's job is to carry oxygen to the different parts of the body.

Construction of the bridge turned out to be a bigger job than they had expected.

It's a dirty job, but someone has to do it.

She was working at two jobs.

It was quite a job to find him.

He never lacked a job for Giles to do.

He really did a job on his opponent.

Do you enjoy your job?

It was the first paid job I ever had.

He's been in the job for six years.

Word forms

noun
singular: job
plural: jobs
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