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n. A regular activity performed in exchange for payment, especially as one's trade, occupation, or profession.

n. A position in which one is employed.

n. A task that must be done: Washing the windows is not my job.

n. A specified duty or responsibility. See Synonyms at task.

n. A specific piece of work to be done for a set fee: an expensive repair job.

n. The object to be worked on.

n. Something resulting from or produced by work.

n. Computer Science A program application that may consist of several steps but is performed as a single logical unit.

n. Informal A difficult or strenuous task: It was a real job to convince them to drop the charges.

n. Informal A bad or unsatisfactory piece of work: The stylist did a real job on my hair.

n. Informal A state of affairs: Their marriage was a bad job from the start. It's a good job that we left early to avoid the traffic.

n. Informal A criminal act, especially a robbery: a bank job.

n. Informal An example of a specified type, especially of something made or constructed. Often used in combination: a new building that is just another glass and steel job; a cowboy hat that is one of those ten-gallon jobs.

verb-intransitive. To work at odd jobs.

verb-intransitive. To work by the piece.

verb-intransitive. To act as a jobber.

v. To purchase (merchandise) from manufacturers and sell it to retailers.

v. To arrange for (contracted work) to be done in portions by others; subcontract.

v. To transact (official business) dishonestly for private profit.

idiom. on the job Paying close attention; on the alert.

v. To jab or make a jab.

n. A jab.

n. A task.

n. An economic role for which a person is paid.

n. Plastic surgery; see e.g. nose job.

n. A task, or series of tasks, carried out in batch mode (especially on a mainframe computer)

n. A thing (often used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall)

v. To do odd jobs or occasional work for hire.

v. To work as a jobber.

v. To take the loss.

v. To buy and sell for profit, as securities; to speculate in.

v. To subcontract a project or delivery in small portions to a number of contractors.

n. A sudden thrust or stab; a jab.

n. A piece of chance or occasional work; any definite work undertaken in gross for a fixed price.

n. 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.

n. Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately.

n. A situation or opportunity of work.

n. A task, or the execution of a task.

n. A task or coordinated set of tasks for a multitasking computer, submitted for processing as a single unit, usually for execution in background. See job control language.

v. To strike or stab with a pointed instrument.

v. To thrust in, as a pointed instrument.

v. To do or cause to be done by separate portions or lots; to sublet (work).

v. To buy and sell, as a broker; to purchase of importers or manufacturers for the purpose of selling to retailers.

v. To hire or let by the job or for a period of service.

verb-intransitive. To do chance work for hire; to work by the piece; to do petty work.

verb-intransitive. To seek private gain under pretense of public service; to turn public matters to private advantage.

verb-intransitive. To carry on the business of a jobber in merchandise or stocks.

n. The hero of the book of that name in the Old Testament; the prototypical patient man.

To strike, stab, or punch, as with something pointed.

To drive; force.

To aim a blow; strike at something.

n. A sudden stab, prick, or thrust, as with anything pointed; a jab.

n. A small piece of wood.

n. A lump.

n. A particular piece of work; something to be done; any undertaking of a defined or restricted character; also, an engagement for the performance of some specified work: something to do.

n. In printing, specifically, a piece of work of the miscellaneous class, including posters, handbills, bill-heads, cards, circulars, small pamphlets, etc.

n. An imposition; a trick.

n. An undertaking so managed as to secure unearned profit or undue advantage; especially, a public duty or trust performed or conducted with a view to improper private gain; a perversion of trust for personal benefit in doing any work.

n. Odd jobs, disconnected, irregular, or trivial pieces of work.

Specifically— Assigned to a special use, as a horse let out or hired by the week or month.

Bought or sold together; lumped together: used chiefly in the phrase job lot, a quantity of goods, either of a miscellaneous character, or of the same kind but of different qualities, conditions, sizes, etc., disposed of or bought as a single lot for a lump sum and at a comparatively low price.

To let out in separate portions, an work among different contractors or workmen: often with out: as, to job out the building of a house.

To let out or to hire by the week or month, as horses or carriages.

To buy in large quantities, and sell to dealers in smaller lots: as, to job cotton; to job cigars. See jobber, 3.

To deal in the public stocks on one's own account. See jobber.

To work at jobs or at chance work.

To let or to hire horses, carriages, etc., for occasional use.

To execute a trust in such a manner as to make it subserve unjustly one's private ends; especially, to pervert public service to private advantage.

To chide; reprimand.

n. any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing

n. the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money

n. an object worked on; a result produced by working

v. work occasionally

n. a damaging piece of work

n. the responsibility to do something

n. a workplace; as in the expression

n. a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved

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

n. a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee

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

v. invest at a risk

v. arranged for contracted work to be done by others

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

v. profit privately from public office and official business

n. the performance of a piece of work

n. a crime (especially a robbery)

"If you have a situation where Cabinet or whoever can vote that the PM is no longer capable of doing the job, that vote should be based on *evidence that the PM is no longer capable of doing the job*."

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unfortunate    unfortunate person    product    production    work    do work    obligation    duty    responsibility    workplace   

business    affair    to put up a job on one    a put-up job    to do one's job    work    employment    labour   

jobbing    jobbed    job control language   

jobbed    jobbing   

jab    thrust    stab   

Bob    Cobb    Latrobe    Probe    Punjab    Rob    Tobe    blob    bob    cob   

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business    task    plan    duty    position    career    team    game    performance    problem