job

job (dʒɒb)
—n
1.	an individual piece of work or task
2.	an occupation; post of employment
3.	an object worked on or a result produced from working
4.	a duty or responsibility: her job was to cook the dinner
5.	informal a difficult task or problem: I had a job to contact him
6.	a state of affairs: make the best of a bad job; it's a good job I saw you
7.	informal a damaging piece of work: he really did a job on that
8.	informal a crime, esp a robbery or burglary
9.	informal an article or specimen: the new car was a nice little job
10.	an instance of jobbery
11.	computing a unit of work for a computer consisting of a single complete task submitted by a user
12.	jobs for the boys appointments given to or created for allies or favourites
13.	on the job
	a.  actively engaged in one's employment
	b.  taboo (Brit) engaged in sexual intercourse
14.	just the job exactly what was required
—vb (usually foll by in) (often foll by out) , jobs, jobbing, jobbed
15.	(intr) to work by the piece or at casual jobs
16.	to make a private profit out of (a public office, etc)
17.	a.  to buy and sell (goods or services) as a middleman: he jobs in government surplus
	b.  (Brit) to buy and sell stocks and shares as a stockjobber: he jobs in blue chips
18.	to apportion (a contract, work, etc) among several contractors, workers, etc
[C16: of uncertain origin]

job

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.

Job

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

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.”

job definition n. a drunkard. : Give the job a drink and make somebody happy today. n. a theft; a criminal act. (Police and underworld. See also pull a job.) : Who did that job at the old mansion last week?

job definition

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)

Job definition

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.

job

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