Dictionary

job

see also: Job

Pronunciation

Noun

job (plural jobs)

A task.
I've got a job for you - could you wash the dishes?
A job half done is hardly done at all.
- 1996, Cameron Crowe, Jerry Maguire
  ''And it's my job to take care of the skanks on the road that you bang.
An economic role for which a person is paid.
That surgeon has a great job.
He's been out of a job since being made redundant in January.
- 2016, [https://web.archive.org/web/20171030003034/https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/lets-learn-english-lesson-8-are-you-busy/3253185.html VOA Learning English] (public domain)
  Here I am at my new job!
(in noun compounds) Plastic surgery.
He had had a nose job.
(computing) A task, or series of tasks, carried out in batch mode (especially on a mainframe computer).
A sudden thrust or stab; a jab.
A public transaction done for private profit; something performed ostensibly as a part of official duty, but really for private gain; a corrupt official business.
Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately.
(colloquial) A thing (often used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall).
Pass me that little job with the screw thread on it.

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French: travail, emploi, métier, (colloquial) boulot, (colloquial) job, poste
German: Arbeit, Job, Beruf, Stelle, Anstellung
Italian: lavoro, mestiere
Portuguese: trabalho, emprego
Russian: рабо́та
Spanish: trabajo, empleo, (colloquial) brete (Costa Rica), camello (Colombia, Ecuador), chamba (Mexico, Peru), curro (Spain), laburo (Argentina,Chile,Paraguay,Uruguay), pega (Chile), talacha (Mexico))

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Verb

job (jobs, present participle jobbing; past and past participle jobbed)

(intransitive) To do odd jobs or occasional work for hire.
- Authors of all work, to job for the season.
(intransitive) To work as a jobber.
(intransitive, professional wrestling slang) To take the loss.
(transitive, trading) To buy and sell for profit, as securities; to speculate in.
(transitive, often, with out) To subcontract a project or delivery in small portions to a number of contractors.
We wanted to sell a turnkey plant, but they jobbed out the contract to small firms.
(intransitive) To seek private gain under pretence of public service; to turn public matters to private advantage.
- 1733, Alexander Pope, Epistle to Bathurst
  And judges job, and bishops bite the town.
To strike or stab with a pointed instrument.
To thrust in, as a pointed instrument.
To hire or let in periods of service.
to job a carriage
- 1848, William M. Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 59,
  […] ...and a pair of handsome horses were jobbed, with which Jos drove about in state in the park...

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Job

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job (plural jobs)

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