noun
the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
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- he's not in my line of business
noun
a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee
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- 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
noun
a workplace
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- as in the expression `on the job'
noun
an object worked on
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- a result produced by working
- he held the job in his left hand and worked on it with his right
noun
the responsibility to do something
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- it is their job to print the truth
noun
the performance of a piece of work
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- she did an outstanding job as Ophelia
- he gave it up as a bad job
noun
a damaging piece of work
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- dry rot did the job of destroying the barn
- the barber did a real job on my hair
noun
a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved
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- she and her husband are having problems
- it is always a job to contact him
- urban problems such as traffic congestion and smog
noun
a Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him
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any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing
noun
(computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit
noun
a book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply
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Book of Job
noun
a crime (especially a robbery)
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- the gang pulled off a bank job in St. Louis
verb
profit privately from public office and official business
verb
arranged for contracted work to be done by others
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verb
work occasionally
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- As a student I jobbed during the semester breaks
verb
invest at a risk
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- 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