job meaning and definition

JOB noun

Definition of job (noun)

1. the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
   • "he's not in my line of business"
   • 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
   • "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"
   • synonyms: chore, task
3. a workplace; as in the expressio
   • "on the job";
4. an object worked on; a result produced by working
   • "he held the job in his left hand and worked on it with his right"
5. the responsibility to do something
   • "it is their job to print the truth"
6. the performance of a piece of work
   • "she did an outstanding job as Ophelia"; "he gave it up as a bad job"
7. a damaging piece of work
   • "dry rot did the job of destroying the barn"; "the barber did a real job on my hair"
8. 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"
   • synonyms: problem
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
    • synonyms: Book of Job
13. a crime (especially a robbery)
    • "the gang pulled off a bank job in St. Louis"
    • synonyms: caper

JOB verb

Definition of job (verb)

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
   • "As a student I jobbed during the semester breaks"
4. 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"
   • synonyms: speculate