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job

English

  1. 🔊 a damaging piece of work
    “dry rot did the job of destroying the barn”
  2. 🔊 the performance of a piece of work
    “she did an outstanding job as Ophelia”
  3. 🔊 the responsibility to do something
    “it is their job to print the truth”
  4. 🔊 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”
  5. 🔊 a workplace
  6. 🔊 an object worked on
    “he held the job in his left hand and worked on it with his right”
  7. 🔊 a book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply
  8. 🔊 (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit
  9. 🔊 any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing
  10. 🔊 a Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him
  11. 🔊 a crime (especially a robbery)
    “the gang pulled off a bank job in St. Louis”
  12. 🔊 a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved
    “she and her husband are having problems”
  13. 🔊 the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
    “he's not in my line of business”
  14. 🔊 work occasionally
    “As a student I jobbed during the semester breaks”
  15. 🔊 profit privately from public office and official business
  16. 🔊 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”
  17. 🔊 arranged for contracted work to be done by others

Spanish

  1. 🔊 brete job
  2. 🔊 cheje job
  3. 🔊 laburo job
  4. 🔊 camello job, work
  5. 🔊 curro job, work
  6. 🔊 jale job, work
  7. 🔊 acomodo job, position
  8. 🔊 empleo job, employment
  9. 🔊 labor job, task, chore

Similar words

occupation business line of work line task chore caper book of job problem speculate subcontract farm out accomplished fact accomplishment achievement act acta action adventure affair appointment assignment bamboozle be in