Job: Definitions of job on the Web:
Definitions of job on the Web:
occupation: the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money; "he's not in my line of business"
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"
a workplace; as in the expression "on the 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"
the responsibility to do something; "it is their job to print the truth"
the performance of a piece of work; "she did an outstanding job as Ophelia"; "he gave it up as a bad job"
a damaging piece of work; "dry rot did the job of destroying the barn"; "the barber did a real job on my hair"
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"
a Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him
profit privately from public office and official business
any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing
subcontract: arranged for contracted work to be done by others
(computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit
work occasionally; "As a student I jobbed during the semester breaks"
a book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply
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