job

Noun

• a crime (especially a robbery)
  • the gang pulled off a bank job in St. Louis
    

• a book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply

• (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit

• any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing

• a Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him

• 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
    

• a damaging piece of work
  • dry rot did the job of destroying the barn
    
  • the barber did a real job on my hair
    

• the performance of a piece of work
  • she did an outstanding job as Ophelia
    
  • he gave it up as a bad job
    

• the responsibility to do something
  • it is their job to print the truth
    

• an object worked on; a result produced by working
  • he held the job in his left hand and worked on it with his right
    

• a workplace; as in the expression "on the job";

• 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
    

• the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
  • he's not in my line of business
    

Verb

• 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
    

• work occasionally
  • As a student I jobbed during the semester breaks
    

• arranged for contracted work to be done by others

• profit privately from public office and official business

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  caper , Job , Book of Job , problem , task , chore , occupation , business , line of work , line , speculate , subcontract , farm out