Noun
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a crime (especially a robbery)
"the gang pulled off a bank job in St. Louis"
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a book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply
- book of job -
(computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit
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any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing
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a Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him
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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"
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a damaging piece of work
"dry rot did the job of destroying the barn"
"the barber did a real job on my hair"
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the performance of a piece of work
"she did an outstanding job as Ophelia"
"he gave it up as a bad job"
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the responsibility to do something
"it is their job to print the truth"
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an object worked on
a result produced by working
"he held the job in his left hand and worked on it with his right"
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a workplace
as in the expression "on the job"
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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"
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the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
"he's not in my line of business"
- line of work
Verb
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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"
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work occasionally
"As a student I jobbed during the semester breaks"
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arranged for contracted work to be done by others
- farm out -
profit privately from public office and official business