job

Noun (1)

job (countable and uncountable, plural jobs)

1. A task.
   • 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.
2. An economic role for which a person is paid.
   • That surgeon has a great job.
   • He's been out of a job since being made redundant in January.

   Synonyms:

   métier

3. Plastic surgery.
   • He had a nose job.
4. A sex act.
   • 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.2000 August 6, “Easy Come, Easy Go”, in Sex and the City, season 3, episode 9, spoken by Samantha
5. A task, or series of tasks, carried out in batch mode (especially on a mainframe computer).
6. 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.
7. (informal) A robbery or heist.
   • 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!2010, J. Lamar, Honor, Deception and Justice, page 53
8. Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately.
9. (colloquial) A thing or whatsit (often used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall).
   • 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, […]1936, Proceedings of the annual meeting of the American Warehousemen's Association, volume 45, page 376

   Synonyms:

   Sorted by number of Google hits, widget, hickey, gizmo, thingy, gimmick, thingie, jigger, gismo, gubbins

10. (UK, slang, uncountable) The police as a profession, act of policing, or an individual police officer.
    • “He was ex-job, Beavis. Detective sergeant out of County, Banbury, retired in ‘59.”2018 February 11, Colin Dexter, Russell Lewis, 14:17 from the start, in Endeavour(Cartouche), season 5, episode 2 (TV series), spoken by DS Endeavour Morse (Shaun Evans)
    • 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.2018 July 24, Chris Merritt, Last Witness:A Gripping Crime Thriller You Won’t Be Able To Put Down
11. (slang, vulgar) Synonym of penis.

    Synonyms:

    penis

Verb (1)

job (third-person singular simple present jobs, present participle jobbing, simple past and past participle jobbed)

1. (intransitive) To do odd jobs or occasional work for hire.
   • Authors of all work, to job for the season.a. 1852, Thomas Moore, Literary Advertisement
2. (intransitive) To work as a jobber.
3. (intransitive, slang) To take the loss, usually in a demeaning or submissive manner.
4. (transitive) To buy and sell for profit, as securities; to speculate in.
5. (often, transitive) To subcontract a project or delivery in small portions to a number of contractors.
   • We wanted to sell a turnkey plant, but they jobbed out the contract to small firms.
6. (intransitive) To seek private gain under pretence of public service; to turn public matters to private advantage.
   • And judges job, and bishops bite the town.1733, Alexander Pope, Epistle to Bathurst
7. To hire or let in periods of service.
   • to job a carriage
   • […] ...and a pair of handsome horses were jobbed, with which Jos drove about in state in the park...1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC

Verb (2)

job (third-person singular simple present jobs, present participle jobbing, simple past and past participle jobbed)

1. (archaic, intransitive, regional) To peck (of a bird); (more generally) to poke or prod (at, into).
   • a raven pitch'd upon him, and there sate, jobbing of the sore1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC
2. (transitive) To pierce or poke (someone or something), typically with a sharp or pointed object; to stab.
   • He had ‘jobbed out’ the eye of one gentleman.1844, Charles Dickens, chapter 33, in Martin Chuzzlewit

   Synonyms:

   jab, run through, chef, chib, ching, chive, enthrill, foin, gore, gride

3. (Australia, transitive) To hit (someone) with a quick, sharp punch; to jab.
   • A stranger jobbed me in the mug so hard that I fell off my chair.2001, Richard Flanagan, Gould's Book of Fish, Vintage, published 2016, page 40

Noun (2)

job (plural jobs)

1. (obsolete) A sudden thrust or stab; a jab or punch.
   • Fair dinkum, a man ought to give you a job in the b— face.1937 October 14, The Western Mail, Perth

Proper noun capitalized: Job

IPA/d͡ʒəʊb/colloquial/d͡ʒɒb/

Job

1. A book of the Old Testament and the Hebrew Tanakh.
2. A male given name from Hebrew.
3. A character in the Old Testament and the Qur'an, renowned for his patience.

   Synonyms:

   Ayub, Ayoub

Noun (3) capitalized: Job

IPA/d͡ʒəʊb/colloquial/d͡ʒɒb/

Job (plural Jobs)

1. (figuratively) A person who shows remarkable patience, especially in the face of great misfortune.