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- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
job \job\ jo^b, v. t. imp. p. p. jobbed jo^bd; p.
pr. vb. n. jobbing.
1913 webster
1. to strike or stab with a pointed instrument. --l'estrange.
1913 webster
2. to thrust in, as a pointed instrument. --moxon.
1913 webster
3. to do or cause to be done by separate portions or lots; to
sublet work; as, to job a contract.
1913 webster
4. com. to buy and sell, as a broker; to purchase of
importers or manufacturers for the purpose of selling to
retailers; as, to job goods.
1913 webster
5. to hire or let by the job or for a period of service; as,
to job a carriage. --thackeray.
1913 webster
see also:
jobbed jobbing
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
jobbed
see job
see also:
job
- [3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
job
n 1: the principal activity in your life that you do to earn
money; "he's not in my line of business" syn: occupation,
business, line of work, line
2: 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"; "the endless
task of classifying the samples"; "the farmer's morning
chores" syn: task, chore
3: the performance of a piece of work; "she did an outstanding
job as ophelia"; "he gave it up as a bad job"
4: the responsibility to do something; "it is their job to
print the truth"
5: a workplace; as in the expression "on the job";
6: an object worked on; a result produced by working; "he held
the job in his left hand and worked on it with his right"
7: a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved; "she and
her husband are having problems"; "it is always a job to
contact him"; "urban problems such as traffic congestion
and smog" syn: problem
8: a damaging piece of work; "dry rot did the job of destroying
the barn"; "the barber did a real job on my hair"
9: a crime especially a robbery; "the gang pulled off a bank
job in st. louis" syn: caper
10: a jewish hero in the old testament who maintained his faith
in god in spite of afflictions that tested him
11: any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without
despairing
12: computer science a program application that may consist of
several steps but is a single logical unit
13: a book in the old testament containing job's pleas to god
about his afflictions and god's reply syn: book of job
v 1: profit privately from public office and official business
2: arranged for contracted work to be done by others syn: subcontract,
farm out
3: work occasionally; "as a student i jobbed during the
semester breaks"
4: 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" syn: speculate
also: jobbing, jobbed
see also:
occupation business line of work line task chore
problem caper book of job subcontract farm out
speculate jobbing jobbed
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