Definition: job
Source: WordNet (r) 1.7
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, 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: task, chore]
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" [syn: problem]
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" [syn: caper]
10: a Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith
in God in spite of afflictions that tested him [syn: Job]
11: any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without
despairing [syn: Job]
12: (computer science) a program application that may consist of
several steps but is a single logical unit
13: a book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God
about his afflictions and God's reply [syn: Job]
v 1: profit privately from public office
2: let out under a subcontract [syn: subcontract, farm out]
3: work occasionally
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]
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Job \Job\, v. i.
1. To do chance work for hire; to work by the piece; to do
petty work.
Authors of all work, to job for the season. --Moore.
2. To seek private gain under pretense of public service; to
turn public matters to private advantage.
And judges job, and bishops bite the town. --Pope.
3. To carry on the business of a jobber in merchandise or
stocks.
Job \Job\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Jobbed; p. pr. & vb. n. Jobbing.] 1. To strike or stab with a pointed instrument. --L'Estrange. 2. To thrust in, as a pointed instrument. --Moxon. 3. To do or cause to be done by separate portions or lots; to sublet (work); as, to job a contract.
Job \Job\, n. [Prov. E. job, gob, n., a small piece of wood, v., to stab, strike; cf. E. gob, gobbet; perh. influenced by E. chop to cut off, to mince. See Gob.] 1. A sudden thrust or stab; a jab. 2. A piece of chance or occasional work; any definite work undertaken in gross for a fixed price; as, he did the job for a thousand dollars. 3. 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. 4. Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately. [Colloq.]
Job \Job\, n. The hero of the book of that name in the Old Testament; the typical patient man. Job's comforter. (a) A false friend; a tactless or malicious person who, under pretense of sympathy, insinuates rebukes. (b) A boil. [Colloq.] Job's news, bad news. --Carlyle. Job's tears (Bot.), a kind of grass (Coix Lacryma), with hard, shining, pearly grains.
Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (2003-OCT-10)
job <operating system> All the activities involved in completing any project on a computer from start to finish. A job may involve several processes and several programs. This term is rather old fashioned and harks back to the days of batch processing where a user would submit his job as a deck of punched cards which would typically include source code interspersed with job control language instructions to guide the various phases of the job such as compilation, linking, execution and printing. (1995-05-07)
Source: U.S. Gazetteer (1990)
Job, KY Zip code(s): 41224 Job, WV Zip code(s): 26296
Source: Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's)
Job, he that weeps or cries
Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
Job persecuted, an Arabian patriarch who resided in the land of Uz (q.v.). While living in the midst of great prosperity, he was suddenly overwhelmed by a series of sore trials that fell upon him. Amid all his sufferings he maintained his integrity. Once more God visited him with the rich tokens of his goodness and even greater prosperity than he had enjoyed before. He survived the period of trial for one hundred and forty years, and died in a good old age, an example to succeeding generations of integrity (Ezek. 14:14, 20) and of submissive patience under the sorest calamities (James 5:11). His history, so far as it is known, is recorded in his book.
