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Meaning of job

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  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}, {job}, {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:
         {job}, {task}, {chore}]
      3: a workplace; as in the expression "on the job";
      4: an object worked on; a result produced by working; "he held
         the job in his left hand and worked on it with his right"
      5: the responsibility to do something; "it is their job to print
         the truth"
      6: the performance of a piece of work; "she did an outstanding
         job as Ophelia"; "he gave it up as a bad job"
      7: a damaging piece of work; "dry rot did the job of destroying
         the barn"; "the barber did a real job on my hair"
      8: 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}, {job}]
      9: a Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith
         in God in spite of afflictions that tested him
      10: any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without
          despairing
      11: (computer science) a program application that may consist of
          several steps but is a single logical unit
      12: a book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God
          about his afflictions and God's reply [syn: {Job}, {Book of
          Job}]
      13: a crime (especially a robbery); "the gang pulled off a bank
          job in St. Louis" [syn: {caper}, {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}, {job}]
      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}, {job}]

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