Definition of job

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  • job is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 12
  • job is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 12
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Definition of job

  • a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee (noun)

    Examples

    1. estimates of the city's loss on that job ranged as high as a million dollars
    2. the job of repairing the engine took several hours

    Synonyms

    1. chore
    2. task
  • a crime (especially a robbery) (noun)

    Examples

    1. the gang pulled off a bank job in St. Louis

    Synonyms

    1. caper
  • invest at a risk (verb)

    Synonyms

    1. speculate
  • the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money (noun)

    Synonyms

    1. business
    2. line
    3. line of work
    4. occupation
  • arranged for contracted work to be done by others (verb)

    Synonyms

    1. farm out
    2. subcontract
  • a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved (noun)

    Examples

    1. it is always a job to contact him

    Synonyms

    1. problem
  • a book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply (noun)

    Synonyms

    1. book of job
  • a damaging piece of work (noun)

    Examples

    1. dry rot did the job of destroying the barn
    2. the barber did a real job on my hair
  • a Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him (noun)
  • an object worked on; a result produced by working (noun)

    Examples

    1. he held the job in his left hand and worked on it with his right
  • any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing (noun)
  • a workplace; as in the expression `on the job' (noun)
  • (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit (noun)
  • profit privately from public office and official business (verb)
  • the performance of a piece of work (noun)

    Examples

    1. she did an outstanding job as Ophelia
    2. he gave it up as a bad job
  • the responsibility to do something (noun)

    Examples

    1. it is their job to print the truth
  • work occasionally (verb)

    Examples

    1. As a student I jobbed during the semester breaks

See definition of job in Merriam Webster