dictionary | A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z |
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Sounds | jhaa'b; jhow'b |
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Rhymes | blob, bob, cob, and 19 more rhymes in aab at the HyperDic website... |
anaerobe, bathrobe, globe, and 10 more rhymes in owb at the HyperDic website... |
Meaning | The principal activity in your life that you do to earn money. |
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Synonyms | occupation, business, line of work, line |
Narrower | sport; farming, land; game, biz; career, calling, vocation; employment, work; appointment; position, post, berth, office, spot, billet, place, situation; treadmill, salt mine; trade, craft; profession; metier, medium; accountancy, accounting; photography; catering |
Broader | activity |
Adjectives | on-the-job |
Meaning | A specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee. |
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Examples | "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" |
Synonyms | task, chore |
Narrower | ball-buster, ball-breaker; disagreeable task, disagreeable chore; stint |
Broader | duty |
Verbs | job; job |
Meaning | The performance of a piece of work. |
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Examples | "she did an outstanding job as Ophelia"; "he gave it up as a bad job" |
Broader | work |
Verbs | job; job |
Meaning | The responsibility to do something. |
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Examples | "it is their job to print the truth" |
Broader | duty, responsibility, obligation |
Meaning | A workplace. As in the expression "on the job";. |
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Broader | workplace, work |
Verbs | job; job |
Meaning | An object worked on. A result produced by working. |
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Examples | "he held the job in his left hand and worked on it with his right" |
Broader | product, production |
Verbs | job; job |
Meaning | A state of difficulty that needs to be resolved. |
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Examples | "it is always a job to contact him" |
Synonyms | problem |
Narrower | race problem; balance-of-payments problem |
Broader | difficulty |
Meaning | A damaging piece of work. |
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Examples | "dry rot did the job of destroying the barn"; "the barber did a real job on my hair" |
Broader | work |
Meaning | A crime (especially a robbery). |
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Examples | "the gang pulled off a bank job in St. Louis" |
Synonyms | caper |
Broader | robbery |
Meaning | A Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him. |
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Broader | hero |
Meaning | Any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing. |
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Broader | unfortunate, unfortunate person |
Meaning | (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit. |
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Category | computer science, computing |
Broader | application, application program, applications programme |
Meaning | A book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply. |
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Synonyms | Book of Job |
Part of | Old Testament; Hagiographa, Ketubim, Writings |
Broader | book |
Meaning | Profit privately from public office and official business. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s |
Broader | cheat, chisel |
Meaning | Arranged for contracted work to be done by others. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s something to somebody |
Synonyms | subcontract, farm out |
Broader | hire, engage, employ |
Nouns | job; job; job; job |
Meaning | Work occasionally. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s PP |
Examples | "As a student I jobbed during the semester breaks" |
Broader | work, do work |
Nouns | job; job; job; job |
Meaning | Invest at a risk. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s PP |
Synonyms | speculate |
Narrower | bull |
Broader | invest, put, commit, place |