1. What someone normally does to earn money; a person's profession, work, or trade
   "She's been looking for a new job in publishing";
   - occupation, business, line of work, line
    
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";
   - task, chore
    
3. The performance of a piece of work
   "she did an outstanding job as Ophelia"; "he gave it up as a bad job"
    
4. The responsibility to do something
   "it is their job to print the truth"
    
5. A workplace; as in the expression 'on the job'
   "He spends most of his time on the job"
    
6. An object worked on; a result produced by working
   "he held the job in his left hand and worked on it with his right"
    
7. A state of difficulty that needs to be resolved
   "it is always a job to contact him";
   - problem, prob [informal]
    
8. A damaging piece of work
   "dry rot did the job of destroying the barn"; "the barber did a real job on my hair"
    
9. A crime (especially a robbery)
   "the gang pulled off a bank job in St. Louis";
   - caper [informal]
    
10. (computing) a process or instance of execution of a program
    "The task manager showed several background jobs running simultaneously";
    - task
     
11. (computing) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit
    "The batch job ran overnight to process the large dataset"

1. Work occasionally
   "As a student I jobbed during the semester breaks"
    
2. Arrange for contracted work to be done by others
   "The publisher jobbed out the printing of the book";
   - subcontract, farm out
    
3. Invest at a risk
   "He jobbed his savings in the stock market";
   - speculate
    
4. [archaic] Profit privately from public office and official business
   "Some politicians were accused of jobbing government contracts to benefit their friends"

1. A Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him
    
2. A book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply
   - Book of Job
    
3. Any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing

Derived forms: jobs, jobbing, Jobs, jobbed

Type of: activity, app, application, application program, applications programme, book, cheat, chisel [informal], commit, difficultness, difficulty, duty, employ, engage, hero, hire, invest, obligation, place, product, production, put, responsibility, robbery, take on, unfortunate, unfortunate person, work, workplace

Part of: Hagiographa, Ketubim, Ketuvim, Old Testament, Writings

Encyclopedia: Job, Puy-de-Dôme