job
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
computing
engineering
finance
government
hobbies
law-enforcement
lifestyle
martial-arts
mathematics
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
professional-wrestling
sciences
sports
trading
war
wrestling
Etymology: From the phrase jobbe of work (“piece of work”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from a variant of Middle English gobbe (“mass, lump”); or perhaps related to Middle English jobben (“to jab, thrust, peck”), or Middle English choppe (“piece, bargain”). More at gob, jab, chop.
Inflected forms:
form: jobs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: j*b
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: jobs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: jobbing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: jobbed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: jobbed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: j*b
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A task.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I've got a job for you: could you wash the dishes?
I didn't speak to many coworkers for the ﬁrst year on the job.
And it's my job to take care of the skanks on the road that you bang.
gloss: An economic role for which a person is paid.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: That surgeon has a great job.
He's been out of a job since being made redundant in January.
I was looking for a job and then I found a job / And heaven knows I'm miserable now
Policing the relationship between government and business in a free society is difficult. Businesspeople have every right to lobby governments, and civil servants to take jobs in the private sector.
Here I am at my new job!
gloss: Plastic surgery.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He had a nose job.
gloss: A sex act.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: hand job
You men have no idea what we're dealing with down there. Teeth placement, and jaw stress, and suction, and gag reflex, and all the while bobbing up and down, moaning and trying to breathe through our noses. Easy? Honey, they don't call it a job for nothing.
gloss: A task, or series of tasks, carried out in batch mode (especially on a mainframe computer).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A public transaction done for private profit; something performed ostensibly as a part of official duty, but really for private gain; a corrupt official business.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A robbery or heist.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
uncountable
examples: a bank job
This freak Vernon got the intelligence on the safe job and passed it on to some other freak, a guy that hears voices in his head and talks back to them. […] We don't think [Vernon's squeeze] is in on the heist, but she apparently is in love with this creep who is laying the pipe in her trough!
gloss: Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A thing or whatsit (often used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall).
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
countable
uncountable
examples: Pass me that little job with the screw thread on it.
One of them was about nine years ago when I stood in white tie and tails beside a little blonde job (laughter and applause) down in front of the First Methodist Church of Birmingham, […]
gloss: The police as a profession, act of policing, or an individual police officer.
pos: noun
tags: UK
slang
uncountable
examples: “He was ex-job, Beavis. Detective sergeant out of County, Banbury, retired in ‘59.”
But there it was on the screen: The personal details of his old colleague from Kennington station in the late nineties.[…]She’s job. We used to work together.
“I’m job, D.S Townsend. I have to report a missing person.”
gloss: A penis.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
vulgar
gloss: To do odd jobs or occasional work for hire.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Authors of all work, to job for the season.
gloss: To work as a jobber.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To take the loss, usually in a demeaning or submissive manner.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
gloss: To buy and sell for profit, as securities; to speculate in.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To subcontract a project or delivery in small portions to a number of contractors.
pos: verb
tags: often
transitive
examples: We wanted to sell a turnkey plant, but they jobbed out the contract to small firms.
gloss: To seek private gain under pretence of public service; to turn public matters to private advantage.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: And judges job, and bishops bite the town.
gloss: To hire or let in periods of service.
pos: verb
examples: to job a carriage
[…] ...and a pair of handsome horses were jobbed, with which Jos drove about in state in the park...
Related words: employment
labour
work
Derived words: 3D job
bad job
bag job
batch job
black bag job
bladejob
bleach job
blowjob
blow job
blue job
bob-a-job
bob-job
bodge job
boob job
botched job
botch job
brow job
brown job
bullshit job
butt job
by the job
chin job
cronjob
day job
desk job
don't give up the day job
don't give up your day job
don't quit your day job
doomjobbing
do one's job
do the job
double-jobbing
dream job
dump job
dye job
eye job
face job
fang job
flex job
foot job
full-time job
get the job done
give something up as a bad job
gob job
good job
great job
gum job
hack job
hair job
handjob
hand job
hatchet job
have a job to
hitjob
I'm looking for a job
inside job
job action
job advertisement
job ad
job advert
job agency
job aid
job analysis
job and finish
job and knock
job app
job applicant
job application
job backwards
jobber
jobbery
jobbie
jobbish
job center
job centre
Jobcentre
job club
Jobclub
job control
job creator
jobday
job description
job fair
jobforce
job force
job fright
jobholder
jobholding
job-hop
job-hopper
job-hopping
jobhour
jobhunter
job-hunt
job hunting
job interview
job jar
jobless
joblife
joblike
joblist
job lock
job lot
jobmaker
job market
job master
jobmate
jobmistress
jobname
job offer
job of work
job op
job order
job posting
job printer
job production
job queue
job rotation
job's a good 'un
job satisfaction
job scheduler
jobsearch
job searching
job security
jobseeker
jobseeking
jobs for the boys
job-shadow
jobshare
job-sharing
job shop
jobsite
job splitting
jobster
jobstopper
jobsware
jobsworth
job title
jobweek
joe-job
joe job
Joe job
junk job
just the job
knob job
lace job
lawn job
lazy girl job
lick job
lie down on the job
lifetime job
lip job
little brown job
lube job
make the best of a bad job
McJob
mouth job
night job
nonjob
nose job
nose-job
note job
nut job
odd job
odd-job
office job
on job
on the job
on-the-job
out of a job
outside job
paint job
paper bag job
prejob
proper job
provisional job
put-up job
ream job
rimjob
rim job
rim-job
rush job
rush-job
screwjob
send a boy to do a man's job
shackjob
shame job
side job
skin job
slide job
snow job
snow-job
stop the job
straight job
summer job
the job is oxo
titjob
toe job
tonguejob
top job
toss job
troll job
union job
walk off the job
wankjob
wet job
whack job
what is your job
what's your job
you had one job
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