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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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