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'job' - used as a noun
1. any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing
2. a book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply
3. a Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him
4. the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
5. 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
6. the performance of a piece of work
she did an outstanding job as Ophelia
he gave it up as a bad job
7. the responsibility to do something
it is their job to print the truth
8. a workplace; as in the expression "on the job";
9. an object worked on; a result produced by working
he held the job in his left hand and worked on it with his right
10. a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved
it is always a job to contact him
11. a damaging piece of work
dry rot did the job of destroying the barn
the barber did a real job on my hair
12. a crime (especially a robbery)
the gang pulled off a bank job in St. Louis
13. (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit

'job' - used as a verb
14. profit privately from public office and official business
15. arranged for contracted work to be done by others
16. work occasionally
As a student I jobbed during the semester breaks
17. invest at a risk

derived forms
1. Job / Plural
jobs
2. Job / Past
jobbed
3. Job / Third Person
jobs
4. Job / Present Participle
jobbing
Variations of 'job'
 
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When telephone companies first began hiring telephone operators, they chose teenage boys for the job. They switched to women because the teenage boys were wrestling instead of working and pulling pranks on callers.