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job - 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" |
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task,
chore |
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duty work that you are obliged to perform for moral or legal reasons; "the duties of the job"
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ball-breaker,
ball-buster a job or situation that is demanding and arduous and punishing; "Vietnam was a ball-breaker"
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stint an individual's prescribed share of work; "her stint as a lifeguard exhausted her"
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scut work,
shitwork trivial, unrewarding, tedious, dirty, and disagreeable chores; "the hospital hired him to do scut work"
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job - the performance of a piece of work; "she did an outstanding job as Ophelia"; "he gave it up as a bad job" |
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work activity directed toward making or doing something; "she checked several points needing further work"
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job - a workplace; as in the expression "on the job"; |
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work,
workplace activity directed toward making or doing something; "she checked several points needing further work"
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job - an object worked on; a result produced by working; "he held the job in his left hand and worked on it with his right" |
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product,
production an artifact that has been created by someone or some process; "they improve their product every year"; "they export most of their agricultural production"
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Job - a book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply |
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hagiographa,
ketubim,
writings the third of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures
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old testament the collection of books comprising the sacred scripture of the Hebrews and recording their history as the chosen people; the first half of the Christian Bible
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job - (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit |
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application,
applications programme,
application program the action of putting something into operation; "the application of maximum thrust"; "massage has far-reaching medical applications"; "the application of indexes to tables of data"
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computer science,
computing the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures
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job - a damaging piece of work; "dry rot did the job of destroying the barn"; "the barber did a real job on my hair" |
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work activity directed toward making or doing something; "she checked several points needing further work"
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job - the responsibility to do something; "it is their job to print the truth" |
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duty,
obligation,
responsibility work that you are obliged to perform for moral or legal reasons; "the duties of the job"
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Job - any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing |
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unfortunate,
unfortunate person a person who suffers misfortune
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Job - a Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him |
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job - work occasionally; "As a student I jobbed during the semester breaks" |
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do work,
work arrive at a certain condition through repeated motion; "The stitches of the hem worked loose after she wore the skirt many times"
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job - profit privately from public office and official business |
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cheat,
chisel defeat someone through trickery or deceit
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