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