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job has 12 distinct synonyms spread across 7 of its 17 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. WordNet records no antonym for it — antonymy is a relation between word forms rather than concepts, so it is deliberately sparse.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
“he's not in my line of business”
a workplace; as in the expression `on the job'
an object worked on; a result produced by working
“he held the job in his left hand and worked on it with his right”
the responsibility to do something
“it is their job to print the truth”
the performance of a piece of work
“she did an outstanding job as Ophelia”
a damaging piece of work
“dry rot did the job of destroying the barn”
a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved
“she and her husband are having problems”
a Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him
any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing
(computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit
a book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply
profit privately from public office and official business
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for job come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.
work occasionally
“As a student I jobbed during the semester breaks”