Main entry: job
Definition: a damaging piece of work
Usage: dry rot did the job of destroying the barn; the barber did a real job on my hair
Main entry: job
Definition: the performance of a piece of work
Usage: she did an outstanding job as Ophelia; he gave it up as a bad job
Main entry: business, job, line, line of work, occupation
Definition: the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
Usage: he's not in my line of business
Main entry: job
Definition: the responsibility to do something
Usage: it is their job to print the truth
Definition: a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee
Usage: 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
Definition: a crime (especially a robbery)
Usage: the gang pulled off a bank job in St. Louis
Main entry: job
Definition: a workplace; as in the expression "on the job";
Main entry: job
Definition: an object worked on; a result produced by working
Usage: he held the job in his left hand and worked on it with his right
Main entry: Book of Job, Job
Definition: a book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply
Main entry: job
Definition: (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit
Main entry: Job
Definition: any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing
Main entry: Job
Definition: a Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him
Definition: a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved
Usage: she and her husband are having problems; it is always a job to contact him; urban problems such as traffic congestion and smog
Definition: invest at a risk
Usage: 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
Main entry: job
Definition: work occasionally
Usage: As a student I jobbed during the semester breaks
Main entry: subcontract, job, farm out
Definition: arranged for contracted work to be done by others
Main entry: job
Definition: profit privately from public office and official business