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job - 18 definitions

- noun
1. occupation -- the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money; "he's not in my line of business"
synonyms: occupation, business, line of work, line
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2. 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"
synonyms: task, chore
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3. job -- a workplace; as in the expression "on the job";
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4. job -- an object worked on; a result produced by working; "he held the job in his left hand and worked on it with his right"
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5. job -- the responsibility to do something; "it is their job to print the truth"
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6. job -- the performance of a piece of work; "she did an outstanding job as Ophelia"; "he gave it up as a bad job"
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7. job -- a damaging piece of work; "dry rot did the job of destroying the barn"; "the barber did a real job on my hair"
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8. problem -- 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"
synonyms: problem
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9. Job -- a Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him
synonyms: Job
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10. Job -- any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing
synonyms: Job
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11. job -- (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit
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12. Job -- a book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply
synonyms: Job, Book of Job
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13. caper -- a crime (especially a robbery); "the gang pulled off a bank job in St. Louis"
synonyms: caper
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- verb
14. job -- profit privately from public office and official business
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15. subcontract -- arranged for contracted work to be done by others
synonyms: subcontract, farm out
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16. job -- work occasionally; "As a student I jobbed during the semester breaks"
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17. speculate -- 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"
synonyms: speculate
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18. job, jobs -- to work by the piece
synonyms: jobs, jobbed, jobbing
Source:OWL 2 Web Ontology Language
 
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