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JOB

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Irregular inflected forms: jobbed    , jobbing   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A damaging piece of work

Example:

the barber did a real job on my hair

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

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

work (activity directed toward making or doing something)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The performance of a piece of work

Example:

he gave it up as a bad job

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

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 3

Meaning:

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

Example:

he's not in my line of business

Synonyms:

business; job; line; line of work; occupation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

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

activity (any specific behavior)

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

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)

sport (the occupation of athletes who compete for pay)

confectionery (the occupation and skills of a confectioner)

Sense 4

Meaning:

The responsibility to do something

Example:

it is their job to print the truth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

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 5

Meaning:

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

Example:

the farmer's morning chores

Synonyms:

chore; job; task

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

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 6

Meaning:

A crime (especially a robbery)

Example:

the gang pulled off a bank job in St. Louis

Synonyms:

caper; job

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

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

robbery (larceny by threat of violence)

Sense 7

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 8

Meaning:

An object worked on; a result produced by working

Example:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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 9

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

Book of Job; Job

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

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 10

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 11

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 12

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 13

Meaning:

A state of difficulty that needs to be resolved

Example:

urban problems such as traffic congestion and smog

Synonyms:

job; problem

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

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)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Invest at a risk

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

Synonyms:

job; speculate

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

Work occasionally

Example:

As a student I jobbed during the semester breaks

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

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 3

Meaning:

Arranged for contracted work to be done by others

Synonyms:

farm out; job; subcontract

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

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 4

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

Credits

 Context examples: 

Now, let’s say you are not looking for a new job but rather are dating someone you love with all your heart.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

To be sure, there were several patches on him, but the tinsmiths did a good job, and as the Woodman was not a vain man he did not mind the patches at all.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Using a biodegradable MOF for siRNA delivery is important to avoid unwanted build-up of the structures once they’ve done their job.

(Nanoparticles used to transport anti-cancer agent to cells, University of Cambridge)

"I appreciate them for accepting this job. We did this one together."

(Eliud Kipchoge of Kenya runs marathon under two hours, Wikinews)

Doing so ensures the protein can complete the second part of its job, which is rejoining DNA ends.

(DNA damage caused by cancer treatment reversed by ZATT protein, National Institutes of Health)

The astrocytes' job is to prune unnecessary synapses (connections) in the brain to refresh and reshape its wiring.

(Lack of Sleep Makes Brain to Literally Eat Itself, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The scientists set out to understand how astrocytes, star-shaped cells found in mammals' brains, help neurons do their job.

(Research on repetitive worm behavior has implications for understanding human diseases, National Science Foundation)

So far as I am concerned, I regret nothing and I fear nothing, and I would do it all again and be proud of the job.

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

“My legs are pretty long, but you've given 'em quite a job.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Good job safety and prevention practices can reduce your risk of these problems.

(Occupational Health, NIH)