Job - Definition
job
n 1: the principal activity in your life that you do to earn
money; "he's not in my line of business" [syn:
occupation, business, job, 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"; "the endless task of
classifying the samples"; "the farmer's morning chores" [syn:
job, task, chore]
3: a workplace; as in the expression "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"
[syn: problem, job]
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 [syn: Job, Book of
Job]
13: a crime (especially a robbery); "the gang pulled off a bank
job in St. Louis" [syn: caper, job]
v 1: profit privately from public office and official business
2: arranged for contracted work to be done by others [syn:
subcontract, farm out, job]
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" [syn: speculate, job]