- occupation, business, job, line of work, line - the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money; "he's not in my line of business"
--1 is a kind of activity
--1 has particulars:sport; farming, land; game, biz; career, calling, vocation; employment, work; appointment; position, post, berth, office, spot, billet, place, situation; treadmill, salt mine; trade, craft; profession; metier, medium; accountancy, accounting; photography; catering - job, task, chore - 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"
--2 is a kind of duty
--2 has particulars:ball-buster, ball-breaker; disagreeable task, disagreeable chore; stint Derived forms: verb job3, verb job2 - job - the performance of a piece of work; "she did an outstanding job as Ophelia"; "he gave it up as a bad job"
--3 is a kind of work
Derived forms: verb job3, verb job2 - job - the responsibility to do something; "it is their job to print the truth"
--4 is a kind of duty, responsibility, obligation
- job - a workplace; as in the expression "on the job";
--5 is a kind of workplace, work
Derived forms: verb job3, verb job2 - job - an object worked on; a result produced by working; "he held the job in his left hand and worked on it with his right"
--6 is a kind of product, production
Derived forms: verb job3, verb job2 - problem, job - 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"
--7 is a kind of difficulty
--7 has particulars: race problem; balance-of-payments problem- job - a damaging piece of work; "dry rot did the job of destroying the barn"; "the barber did a real job on my hair"
--8 is a kind of work
- caper, job - a crime (especially a robbery); "the gang pulled off a bank job in St. Louis"
--9 is a kind of robbery
- Job - a Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him
--10 is a kind of hero
- Job - any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing
--11 is a kind of unfortunate, unfortunate person
- job - (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit
--12 is a kind of application, application program, applications programme
- Job, Book of Job - a book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply
--13 is a kind of book
--13 is a part of Hagiographa, Ketubim, Writings; Old Testament - job - a workplace; as in the expression "on the job";
- job - profit privately from public office and official business
--1 is one way to cheat, chisel
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s
- subcontract, farm out, job - arranged for contracted work to be done by others
--2 is one way to hire, engage, employ
Sample sentences:Derived forms: noun job6, noun job5, noun job3, noun job2
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody
- job - work occasionally; "As a student I jobbed during the semester breaks"
--3 is one way to work, do work
Sample sentence:Derived forms: noun job6, noun job5, noun job3, noun job2
Somebody ----s PP
- speculate, job - 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"
--4 is one way to invest, put, commit, place
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
- subcontract, farm out, job - arranged for contracted work to be done by others