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▸ noun: a damaging piece of work ("Dry rot did the job of destroying the barn")
▸ noun: the performance of a piece of work ("She did an outstanding job as Ophelia")
▸ noun: the responsibility to do something ("It is their job to print the truth")
▸ 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")
▸ 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: a book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply
▸ noun: (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit
▸ noun: any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing
▸ noun: a Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him
▸ noun: a crime (especially a robbery) ("The gang pulled off a bank job in St. Louis")
▸ noun: a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved ("It is always a job to contact him")
▸ noun: the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
▸ verb: work occasionally ("As a student I jobbed during the semester breaks")
▸ verb: profit privately from public office and official business
▸ verb: invest at a risk
▸ verb: arranged for contracted work to be done by others
▸ name: A surname (common: 1 in 100000 families; popularity rank in the U.S.: #13253)
▸ Also see jobs
▸ Word origin
▸ Words similar to job
▸ Usage examples for job
▸ Idioms related to job (New!)
▸ Popular adjectives describing job
▸ Words that often appear near job
▸ Rhymes of job
▸ Invented words related to job
▸ noun: a damaging piece of work ("Dry rot did the job of destroying the barn")
▸ noun: the performance of a piece of work ("She did an outstanding job as Ophelia")
▸ noun: the responsibility to do something ("It is their job to print the truth")
▸ 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")
▸ 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: a book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply
▸ noun: (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit
▸ noun: any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing
▸ noun: a Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him
▸ noun: a crime (especially a robbery) ("The gang pulled off a bank job in St. Louis")
▸ noun: a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved ("It is always a job to contact him")
▸ noun: the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
▸ verb: work occasionally ("As a student I jobbed during the semester breaks")
▸ verb: profit privately from public office and official business
▸ verb: invest at a risk
▸ verb: arranged for contracted work to be done by others
▸ name: A surname (common: 1 in 100000 families; popularity rank in the U.S.: #13253)
▸ Also see jobs
▸ Word origin
▸ Words similar to job
▸ Usage examples for job
▸ Idioms related to job (New!)
▸ Popular adjectives describing job
▸ Words that often appear near job
▸ Rhymes of job
▸ Invented words related to job