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say it: jahb
job is a noun and verb meaning "the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money". It carries 17 recorded senses.
the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
“he's not in my line of business”
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”
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 performance of a piece of work
“she did an outstanding job as Ophelia”
“he gave it up as a bad job”
a damaging piece of work
“dry rot did the job of destroying the barn”
“the barber did a real job on my hair”
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 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
computer science
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
arranged for contracted work to be done by others
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for job come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.