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job1       [job] Pronunciation Key noun, verb, jobbed, job·bing, adjective
–noun
1.a piece of work, esp. a specific task done as part of the routine of one's occupation or for an agreed price: She gave him the job of mowing the lawn.
2.a post of employment; full-time or part-time position: She was seeking a job as an editor.
3.anything a person is expected or obliged to do; duty; responsibility: It is your job to be on time.
4.an affair, matter, occurrence, or state of affairs: to make the best of a bad job.
5.the material, project, assignment, etc., being worked upon: The housing project was a long and costly job.
6.the process or requirements, details, etc., of working: It was a tedious job.
7.the execution or performance of a task: She did a good job.
8.Slang. a theft or similar criminal action: The police caught the gang that pulled that bank job.
9.a public or official act or decision carried through for the sake of improper private gain.
10.Slang. an example of a specific or distinctive type: That little six-cylinder job was the best car I ever owned.
11.Computers. a unit of work for a computer, generally comprising an application program or group of related programs and the data, linkages, and instructions to the operating system needed for running the programs.
–verb (used without object)
12.to work at jobs or odd pieces of work; work by the piece.
13.to do business as a jobber.
14.to turn public business, planning, etc., improperly to private gain.
–verb (used with object)
15.to assign or give (work, a contract for work, etc.) in separate portions, as among different contractors or workers (often fol. by out): He jobbed out the contract to a number of small outfits.
16.to buy in large quantities, as from wholesalers or manufacturers, and sell to dealers in smaller quantities: He jobs shoes in Ohio and Indiana.
17.to get rid of or dispose of: His party jobbed him when he sought a second term in office.
18.to swindle or trick (someone): They jobbed him out of his property.
19.to carry on (public or official business) for improper private gain.
–adjective
20.of or for a particular job or transaction.
21.bought, sold, or handled together: He's too big a customer to buy in less than job quantities.
—Idioms
22.do a job on, Slang.
a.to destroy, defeat, damage, or confound thoroughly: The thugs did a job on him—he'll be in the hospital for a month.
b.to deceive, persuade, or charm glibly; snow.
23.on the job, alert; observant: The cops were on the job and caught them red-handed.
[Origin: 1620–30; 1935–40 for def. 14; orig. uncert.]

—Synonyms 1. See task. 2. See position.
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job2       [job] Pronunciation Key verb (used with object), verb (used without object), jobbed, job·bing, noun
jab.
[Origin: 1480–90; ME jobben, of uncert. orig.]
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Job       [johb] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.the central figure in an Old Testament parable of the righteous sufferer.
2.a book of the Bible bearing his name.
3.a male given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “persecuted.”
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job 1       (jŏb)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. A regular activity performed in exchange for payment, especially as one's trade, occupation, or profession.
  2. A position in which one is employed.
    1. A task that must be done: Washing the windows is not my job.
    2. A specified duty or responsibility. See Synonyms at task.
    3. A specific piece of work to be done for a set fee: an expensive repair job.
    4. The object to be worked on.
    5. Something resulting from or produced by work.
    1. A specific piece of work to be done for a set fee: an expensive repair job.
    2. The object to be worked on.
    3. Something resulting from or produced by work.
  5. Computer Science A program application that may consist of several steps but is performed as a single logical unit.
  6. Informal A difficult or strenuous task: It was a real job to convince them to drop the charges.
  7. Informal A bad or unsatisfactory piece of work: The stylist did a real job on my hair.
  8. Informal A state of affairs: Their marriage was a bad job from the start. It's a good job that we left early to avoid the traffic.
  9. Informal A criminal act, especially a robbery: a bank job.
  10. Informal An example of a specified type, especially of something made or constructed. Often used in combination: a new building that is just another glass and steel job; a cowboy hat that is one of those ten-gallon jobs.

v.   jobbed, job·bing, jobs

v.   intr.
  1. To work at odd jobs.
  2. To work by the piece.
  3. To act as a jobber.

v.   tr.
  1. To purchase (merchandise) from manufacturers and sell it to retailers.
  2. To arrange for (contracted work) to be done in portions by others; subcontract.
  3. To transact (official business) dishonestly for private profit.


[Perhaps from obsolete jobbe, piece, alteration of Middle English gobbe, lump; see gob1.]

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job 2       (jŏb)  Pronunciation Key 
tr. & intr.v.   jobbed, job·bing, jobs
To jab or make a jab.

n.   A jab.


[Middle English jobben, of imitative origin.]

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Job 1       (jōb)  Pronunciation Key 
In the Bible, an upright man whose faith in God survived the test of repeated calamities.


[Hebrew 'iyyôb; see b in Semitic roots.]

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Job 2       (jōb)  Pronunciation Key 
n.   Abbr. Jb
See Table at Bible.


[After Job.]

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job 
1557, in phrase jobbe of worke "piece of work" (contrasted with continuous labor), perhaps a variant of gobbe "mass, lump" (c.1400, see gob). Sense of "work done for pay" first recorded 1660. Slang meaning "specimen, thing, person" is from 1927. The verb is attested from 1670. On the job "hard at work" is from 1882. Jobber "one who does odd jobs" is from 1706. Job lot is from obsolete sense of "cartload, lump," which may also be ult. from gob.

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Job 
the Biblical name, Heb., lit. "hated, persecuted," from ayyabh "he was hostile to," related to ebhah "enmity."

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job

noun
1. the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money; "he's not in my line of business" [syn: occupation] 
2. 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. a workplace; as in the expression "on the job"; 
4. an object worked on; a result produced by working; "he held the job in his left hand and worked on it with his right" 
5. the responsibility to do something; "it is their job to print the truth" 
6. the performance of a piece of work; "she did an outstanding job as Ophelia"; "he gave it up as a bad job" 
7. a damaging piece of work; "dry rot did the job of destroying the barn"; "the barber did a real job on my hair" 
8. 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" [syn: problem] 
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); "the gang pulled off a bank job in St. Louis" [syn: caper] 

verb
1. profit privately from public office and official business 
2. arranged for contracted work to be done by others [syn: subcontract] 
3. work occasionally; "As a student I jobbed during the semester breaks" 
4. 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" [syn: speculate] 

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job

see do a job on; hatchet man (job); lie down (on the job); on the job; put-up job; snow job; soft job.


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Job [(johb)]

In the Old Testament, a man whose faith was severely tested by Satan, with God's permission. Job was the most prosperous and happy of men, who faithfully praised God for God's goodness. In order to get him to curse God, Satan destroyed all that Job owned, killed his children, and struck Job himself with vile sores from head to foot. False friends of Job's suggested that he should abandon his beliefs (see Job's comforters). But even in absolute misery, Job would not curse God, saying instead, “The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away: blessed be the name of the Lord.” As a reward for his steadfast faith, God healed Job and “gave him twice as much as he had before.”

Note: Figuratively, any long-suffering person can be said to be “as patient as Job.”

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Main Entry: 1job
Function: verb
Inflected Forms: jobbed; job·bing
intransitive verb 1 : to do odd or occasional pieces of work for hire
2 : to carry on the business of a middleman or wholesaler transitive verb 1 : to buy and sell (as stock) for profit
2 : to hire or let by the job or for a period of service
3 : to do or cause to be done by separate portions or lots : SUBCONTRACT

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Main Entry: 2job
Function: noun
1 a : a piece of work; especially : a small miscellaneous piece of work undertaken on order at a stated rate b : the object or material on which work is being done
2 a : a specific duty, role, or function job description> b : a regular remunerative position—on the job : at work

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job operating system
All activities involved in completing any project on a computer from start to finish. A job may involve several processes and several programs.
This term originates from a time when a user would manually submit a job as a deck of punched cards which would typically include source code interspersed with job control language instructions to guide phases of the job such as compilation, linking, execution and printing.
(2005-03-16)

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Job, KY Zip code(s): 41224

Job, WV Zip code(s): 26296

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Job\, n. [Prov. E. job, gob, n., a small piece of wood, v., to stab, strike; cf. E. gob, gobbet; perh. influenced by E. chop to cut off, to mince. See Gob.]

1. A sudden thrust or stab; a jab.

2. A piece of chance or occasional work; any definite work undertaken in gross for a fixed price; as, he did the job for a thousand dollars.

3. A public transaction done for private profit; something performed ostensibly as a part of official duty, but really for private gain; a corrupt official business.

4. Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately. [Colloq.]

5. A situation or opportunity of work; as, he lost his job. [Colloq.]

Note: Job is used adjectively to signify doing jobs, used for jobs, or let on hire to do jobs; as, job printer; job master; job horse; job wagon, etc.

By the job, at a stipulated sum for the work, or for each piece of work done; -- distinguished from time work; as, the house was built by the job.

Job lot, a quantity of goods, usually miscellaneous, sold out of the regular course of trade, at a certain price for the whole; as, these articles were included in a job lot.

Job master, one who lest out horses and carriages for hire, as for family use. [Eng.]

Job printer, one who does miscellaneous printing, esp. circulars, cards, billheads, etc.

Odd job, miscellaneous work of a petty kind; occasional work, of various kinds, or for various people.

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Job\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Jobbed; p. pr. & vb. n. Jobbing.]

1. To strike or stab with a pointed instrument. --L'Estrange.

2. To thrust in, as a pointed instrument. --Moxon.

3. To do or cause to be done by separate portions or lots; to sublet (work); as, to job a contract.

4. (Com.) To buy and sell, as a broker; to purchase of importers or manufacturers for the purpose of selling to retailers; as, to job goods.

5. To hire or let by the job or for a period of service; as, to job a carriage. --Thackeray.

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Job\, v. i. 1. To do chance work for hire; to work by the piece; to do petty work.

Authors of all work, to job for the season. --Moore.

2. To seek private gain under pretense of public service; to turn public matters to private advantage.

And judges job, and bishops bite the town. --Pope.

3. To carry on the business of a jobber in merchandise or stocks.

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Job\, n. The hero of the book of that name in the Old Testament; the typical patient man.

Job's comforter. (a) A false friend; a tactless or malicious person who, under pretense of sympathy, insinuates rebukes. (b) A boil. [Colloq.]

Job's news, bad news. --Carlyle.

Job's tears (Bot.), a kind of grass (Coix Lacryma), with hard, shining, pearly grains.

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Job

persecuted, an Arabian patriarch who resided in the land of Uz (q.v.). While living in the midst of great prosperity, he was suddenly overwhelmed by a series of sore trials that fell upon him. Amid all his sufferings he maintained his integrity. Once more God visited him with the rich tokens of his goodness and even greater prosperity than he had enjoyed before. He survived the period of trial for one hundred and forty years, and died in a good old age, an example to succeeding generations of integrity (Ezek. 14:14, 20) and of submissive patience under the sorest calamities (James 5:11). His history, so far as it is known, is recorded in his book.

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Job

Job, he that weeps or cries

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