job (
http://definr.com/job)
n 1: the principal activity in your life that you do to earn
money; "he's not in my line of business" [syn:
occupation,
business,
line of work,
line]
2: 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" [syn:
task,
chore]
3: the performance of a piece of work; "she did an outstanding
job as Ophelia"; "he gave it up as a bad job"
4: the responsibility to do something; "it is their job to
print the truth"
5: a workplace; as in the expression "on the job"
6: an object worked on; a result produced by working; "he held
the job in his left hand and worked on it with his right"
7: 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" [syn:
problem]
8: a damaging piece of work: "dry rot did the job of destroying
the barn"; "the barber did a real job on my hair"
9: a crime (especially a robbery); "the gang pulled off a bank
job in St. Louis" [syn:
caper]
10: a Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith
in God in spite of afflictions that tested him [syn:
Job]
11: any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without
despairing [syn:
Job]
12: (computer science) a program application that may consist of
several steps but is a single logical unit
13: a book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God
about his afflictions and God's reply [syn:
Job]
v 1: profit privately from public office
2: let out under a subcontract [syn:
subcontract,
farm out]
3: work occasionally
4: 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" [syn:
speculate]