Job

/dʤɔb /

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Definition

Noun:
- A paid position of regular employment: A specific role or occupation for which one is paid.
- A task or piece of work, especially one that is paid: A specific piece of work or duty to be performed.
- A responsibility or duty: Something one is expected or required to do.
- A difficult task or problem: A situation that is troublesome or hard to resolve.
- A crime, especially a robbery (informal): A specific criminal act, often planned.
- An object being worked on; a workpiece: An item that is being manufactured or repaired.
- The performance or execution of a task: How well a piece of work is done.
- A state of affairs; a situation: The general condition or outcome of an endeavor.
Verb:
- To do casual or occasional work: To work at odd jobs or on a temporary basis.
- To buy and sell (stocks, goods) as a broker or middleman: To trade, often with a focus on profit.
- To profit from something in an underhanded way, especially a public office: To use a position for personal, often dishonest, gain.

Examples of Usage

Noun:
- She got a new job as a software engineer. (She obtained a new paid position.)
- Painting the fence is a big job. (Painting the fence is a significant task.)
- It's your job to lock the doors at night. (It is your responsibility.)
- We have a real job on our hands fixing this leak. (We have a difficult problem to solve.)
- The police investigated the bank job. (The police investigated the bank robbery.)
- The machinist held the metal job steady. (The machinist held the workpiece.)
- He did a fantastic job on the presentation. (He performed the task excellently.)
- Making everyone agree was a tough job. (Reaching consensus was a difficult situation.)
Verb:
- He jobbed as a gardener during the summer. (He worked temporarily as a gardener.)
- He jobbed in commodities for a few years. (He worked as a broker trading commodities.)
- The corrupt official was accused of jobbing. (The official was accused of profiteering from his office.)

Advanced Usage

"to do the job": to be effective or sufficient for a purpose.
- This old tool should do the job. (This old tool should be sufficient.)
"to make the best of a bad job": to cope as well as possible with a failure or unsatisfactory situation.
- The cake burned, but we'll make the best of a bad job and serve it with extra ice cream.
"on the job": while working; at the workplace.
- Safety training must be completed on the job.
"a good/bad job": a satisfactory/unsatisfactory situation or outcome.
- It's a good job you brought an umbrella. (It is fortunate that you brought an umbrella.)

Variants and Related Words

Jobless (adj): Unemployed; without a job.
- Help for the jobless is a priority.
Jobber (n): A person who jobs; a wholesaler or stockbroker dealing on their own account.
- The jobber bought goods in bulk to sell to retailers.
Jobbing (adj/n): Doing occasional pieces of work.
- He is a jobbing carpenter.
Job lot (n phr): A group of miscellaneous articles bought or sold together.
- He bought a job lot of old books at the auction.

Synonyms

Related Phrasal Verbs

Job out: To subcontract work to another company.
- The firm decided to job out the manufacturing.
Lie down on the job (idiomatic phrasal verb): To be lazy or neglect one's duties.
- We can't afford to have anyone lying down on the job right now.

Related Idioms

A hatchet job: A fierce verbal or written attack intended to destroy a reputation.
- The critic's review was a real hatchet job on the author.
Jobs for the boys (chiefly British): The practice of giving paid employment to friends or associates, especially in politics.
- The appointments were criticized as jobs for the boys.
Just the job (British informal): Exactly what is needed.
- This toolkit is just the job for fixing the bike.
Give something up as a bad job: To stop trying to do something because it seems hopeless.
- After hours of failure, I gave it up as a bad 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

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