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