Scrabble & Words with friends points
- 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
- job is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 15
Definition of job
- a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee (noun)
Examples
- 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
Synonyms
- chore
- task
- a crime (especially a robbery) (noun)
Examples
- the gang pulled off a bank job in St. Louis
Synonyms
- caper
- invest at a risk (verb)
Synonyms
- speculate
- the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money (noun)
Synonyms
- business
- line
- line of work
- occupation
- arranged for contracted work to be done by others (verb)
Synonyms
- farm out
- subcontract
- a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved (noun)
Examples
- it is always a job to contact him
Synonyms
- problem
- a book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply (noun)
Synonyms
- book of job
- a damaging piece of work (noun)
Examples
- dry rot did the job of destroying the barn
- 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
- 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
- she did an outstanding job as Ophelia
- he gave it up as a bad job
- the responsibility to do something (noun)
Examples
- it is their job to print the truth
- work occasionally (verb)
Examples
- As a student I jobbed during the semester breaks
See definition of job in Merriam Webster