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jobs

UK/d͡ʒɒbz//d͡ʒɑbz/

jobs is the plural of job.

jobs is the third-person singular simple present indicative of job.

Meaning of job

Noun

job (countable and uncountable, plural jobs)

  1. A task.
    • I've got a job for you: could you wash the dishes?
  2. An economic role for which a person is paid.
    • That surgeon has a great job.
    Synonyms:
    métier
  3. Plastic surgery.
    • He had a nose job.
  4. A sex act.
    • hand job
  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.

See all 26 meanings of job

Proper noun capitalized: Jobs

Jobs (plural Jobses)

  1. A surname.

Noun capitalized: Jobs

Jobs

  1. (plural) plural of Job

Forms of jobs

pluralJobses

Words formed from jobs

Phrases with jobs

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Words that rhyme with jobs

Questions about jobs

What does jobs mean?
Jobs means a surname.
What is jobs the plural of?
Jobs is the plural of job.
What part of speech is jobs?
Jobs can be a proper noun or a noun.
How do you pronounce jobs?
Jobs is pronounced /d͡ʒɑbz/ (US).

Words near jobs in the dictionary

  1. jobnames
  2. jobpocalypse
  3. Jobran
  4. Jobrani
  5. Jobranis
  6. jobs
  7. jobs backwards
  8. jobs for the boys
  9. jobs of work
  10. jobsearch
  11. jobseeker

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: jobs (page history and authors); Jobs (page history and authors); job (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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