JOB (jobbed, jobbing)

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Job mean? 

• JOB (noun)
  The noun JOB has 13 senses:

1. the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money

2. a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee

3. a workplace; as in the expression 'on the job'

4. an object worked on; a result produced by working

5. the responsibility to do something

6. the performance of a piece of work

7. a damaging piece of work

8. a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved

9. a Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him

10. any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing

11. (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit

12. a book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply

13. a crime (especially a robbery)

  Familiarity information: JOB used as a noun is familiar.

• JOB (verb)
  The verb JOB has 4 senses:

1. profit privately from public office and official business

2. arranged for contracted work to be done by others

3. work occasionally

4. invest at a risk

  Familiarity information: JOB used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JOB (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The principal activity in your life that you do to earn money

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

business; job; line; line of work; occupation

Context example:

he's not in my line of business

Hypernyms ("job" is a kind of...):

activity (any specific behavior)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "job"):

sport (the occupation of athletes who compete for pay)

catering (providing food and services)

photography (the occupation of taking and printing photographs or making movies)

accountancy; accounting (the occupation of maintaining and auditing records and preparing financial reports for a business)

medium; metier (an occupation for which you are especially well suited)

profession (an occupation requiring special education (especially in the liberal arts or sciences))

craft; trade (the skilled practice of a practical occupation)

salt mine; treadmill (a job involving drudgery and confinement)

berth; billet; office; place; position; post; situation; spot (a job in an organization)

appointment (the job to which you are (or hope to be) appointed)

employment; work (the occupation for which you are paid)

calling; career; vocation (the particular occupation for which you are trained)

biz; game (your occupation or line of work)

farming; land (agriculture considered as an occupation or way of life)

confectionery (the occupation and skills of a confectioner)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

chore; job; task

Context example:

the farmer's morning chores

Hypernyms ("job" is a kind of...):

duty (work that you are obliged to perform for moral or legal reasons)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "job"):

ball-breaker; ball-buster (a job or situation that is demanding and arduous and punishing)

stint (an individual's prescribed share of work)

scut work; shitwork (trivial, unrewarding, tedious, dirty, and disagreeable chores)

Derivation:

job (work occasionally)

job (arranged for contracted work to be done by others)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A workplace; as in the expression 'on the job'

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("job" is a kind of...):

work; workplace (a place where work is done)

Derivation:

job (work occasionally)

job (arranged for contracted work to be done by others)

Sense 4

Meaning:

An object worked on; a result produced by working

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Context example:

he held the job in his left hand and worked on it with his right

Hypernyms ("job" is a kind of...):

product; production (an artifact that has been created by someone or some process)

Derivation:

job (work occasionally)

job (arranged for contracted work to be done by others)

Sense 5

Meaning:

The responsibility to do something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

it is their job to print the truth

Hypernyms ("job" is a kind of...):

duty; obligation; responsibility (the social force that binds you to the courses of action demanded by that force)

Sense 6

Meaning:

The performance of a piece of work

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

he gave it up as a bad job

Hypernyms ("job" is a kind of...):

work (activity directed toward making or doing something)

Derivation:

job (work occasionally)

job (arranged for contracted work to be done by others)

Sense 7

Meaning:

A damaging piece of work

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

the barber did a real job on my hair

Hypernyms ("job" is a kind of...):

work (activity directed toward making or doing something)

Sense 8

Meaning:

A state of difficulty that needs to be resolved

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

job; problem

Context example:

urban problems such as traffic congestion and smog

Hypernyms ("job" is a kind of...):

difficulty (a condition or state of affairs almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring great effort to bear or overcome)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "job"):

race problem (a social and political problem caused by conflict between races occupying the same or adjacent regions)

balance-of-payments problem (an economic problem caused by payments for imports being greater than receipts for exports)

Sense 9

Meaning:

A Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

hero (a man distinguished by exceptional courage and nobility and strength)

Sense 10

Meaning:

Any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Job" is a kind of...):

unfortunate; unfortunate person (a person who suffers misfortune)

Sense 11

Meaning:

(computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("job" is a kind of...):

application; application program; applications programme (a program that gives a computer instructions that provide the user with tools to accomplish a task)

Domain category:

computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)

Sense 12

Meaning:

A book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Book of Job; Job

Instance hypernyms:

book (a major division of a long written composition)

Holonyms ("Job" is a part of...):

Old Testament (the collection of books comprising the sacred scripture of the Hebrews and recording their history as the chosen people; the first half of the Christian Bible)

Hagiographa; Ketubim; Writings (the third of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures)

Sense 13

Meaning:

A crime (especially a robbery)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

caper; job

Context example:

the gang pulled off a bank job in St. Louis

Hypernyms ("job" is a kind of...):

robbery (larceny by threat of violence)

• JOB (verb)

Conjugation:

Sense 1

Meaning:

Profit privately from public office and official business

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "job" is one way to...):

cheat; chisel (engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Sense 2

Meaning:

Arranged for contracted work to be done by others

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

farm out; job; subcontract

Hypernyms (to "job" is one way to...):

employ; engage; hire (engage or hire for work)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody

Derivation:

job (the performance of a piece of work)

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

job (a workplace; as in the expression 'on the job')

job (an object worked on; a result produced by working)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Work occasionally

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Context example:

As a student I jobbed during the semester breaks

Hypernyms (to "job" is one way to...):

do work; work (be employed)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

job (the performance of a piece of work)

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

job (a workplace; as in the expression 'on the job')

job (an object worked on; a result produced by working)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Invest at a risk

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

job; speculate

Context example:

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

Hypernyms (to "job" is one way to...):

commit; invest; place; put (make an investment)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "job"):

bull (try to raise the price of stocks through speculative buying)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

 Context examples 

A test with high sensitivity has a low false-negative rate and thus does a good job of correctly identifying affected individuals.

(Diagnostic Sensitivity, NCI Dictionary)

Don't you think it's about time you got a job?

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

A test with high specificity has a low false-positive rate and thus does a good job of correctly classifying unaffected individuals.

(Diagnostic Specificity, NCI Dictionary)

A question about whether an individual is or was concerned about keeping their job including their work at home.

(Concerned About Keeping My Job, Including Work at Home, NCI Thesaurus)

Blood disorders affect one or more parts of the blood and prevent your blood from doing its job.

(Blood Disorders, NIH)

Brief Pain Inventory (BPI) Which of the following best describes your current job status?

(BPI - Current Job Status, NCI Thesaurus)

Our only chance of safety lay in making a clean job of it, said he, and he would not leave a tongue with power to wag in a witness-box.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The aim is to find the best fit between you and your job conditions.

(Ergonomics, NIH)

Emergency medical technicians, or EMTs, do specific rescue jobs.

(Emergency Medical Services, NIH)

I was dreadfully afraid when I saw you that you had got the squire’s pig. If you have, and they catch you, it will be a bad job for you.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)