Definition of
Job
- (noun, act) a damaging piece of work
the barber did a real job on my hair - (noun, act) the performance of a piece of work
he gave it up as a bad job - (noun, act) the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
- (noun, act) the responsibility to do something
- (noun, act) a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee
the job of repairing the engine took several hours
the endless task of classifying the samples
the farmer's morning chores - (noun, act) a crime (especially a robbery)
- (noun, artifact) a workplace; as in the expression
- (noun, artifact) an object worked on; a result produced by working
- (noun, communication) a book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply
- (noun, communication) (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit
- (noun, person) any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing
- (noun, person) a Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him
- (noun, state) a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved
it is always a job to contact him
urban problems such as traffic congestion and smog - (verb, possession) invest at a risk
- (verb, social) work occasionally
- (verb, social) arranged for contracted work to be done by others
- (verb, social) profit privately from public office and official business
- (noun, act) a damaging piece of work
via WordNet, Princeton University
Synonyms of Job
book of job, business, caper, chore, farm out, line, line of work, occupation, problem, speculate, subcontract, task
Alternate forms of Job
Derivations: job
Hyponyms: accountancy, accounting, appointment, balance-of-payments problem, ball-breaker, ball-buster, berth, billet, biz, bull, calling, career, catering, confectionery, craft, employment, farming, game, land, medium, metier, office, photography, place, position, post, profession, race problem, salt mine, scut work, shitwork, situation, sport, spot, stint, trade, treadmill, vocation, work
Hypernyms: activity, application, application program, applications programme, cheat, chisel, commit, difficulty, do work, duty, employ, engage, hire, invest, obligation, place, product, production, put, responsibility, robbery, unfortunate, unfortunate person, work, workplace
Origin of the word Job
- 1557, in phrase jobbe of worke "piece of work" (contrasted with continuous labor), perhaps a variant of gobbe "mass, lump" (c.1400, see gob). Sense of "work done for pay" first recorded 1660. Slang meaning "specimen, thing, person" is from 1927. The verb is attested from 1670. On the job "hard at work" is from 1882. Jobber "one who does odd jobs" is … more
- the Biblical name, Heb., lit. "hated, persecuted," from ayyabh "he was hostile to," related to ebhah "enmity." more
via Online Etymology Dictionary, ©2001 Douglas Harper