【Dict.Wiki ❷⓿❷❷】job meaning, job slang, job definition, job translation.❤️️︎︎ What does job mean? Meaning of job. job Meaning, slang, Define and pronunciation...

1. the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money;

• "he's not in my line of business"

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"

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"

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"

10. (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit

1. profit privately from public office and official business

2. arranged for contracted work to be done by others

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"