Job,

11 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Job \Job\ (j[o^]b), 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}.]
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     1. A sudden thrust or stab; a jab.
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     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.
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     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.
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     4. Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately
        or unfortunately. [Colloq.]
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     5. A situation or opportunity of work; as, he lost his job.
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     6. A task, or the execution of a task; as, Michelangelo did a
        great job on the David statue.
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     7. (Computers) A task or coordinated set of tasks for a
        multitasking computer, submitted for processing as a
        single unit, usually for execution in background. See {job
        control language}.
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     Note: Job is used adjectively to signify doing jobs, used for
           jobs, or let on hire to do jobs; as, job printer; job
           master; job horse; job wagon, etc.
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     {By the job}, at a stipulated sum for the work, or for each
        piece of work done; -- distinguished from {time work}; as,
        the house was built by the job.
  
     {Job lot}, a quantity of goods, usually miscellaneous, sold
        out of the regular course of trade, at a certain price for
        the whole; as, these articles were included in a job lot.
        
  
     {Job master}, one who lest out horses and carriages for hire,
        as for family use. [Eng.]
  
     {Job printer}, one who does miscellaneous printing, esp.
        circulars, cards, billheads, etc.
  
     {Odd job}, miscellaneous work of a petty kind; occasional
        work, of various kinds, or for various people.
  
     {to do a job on}, to harm badly or destroy. [slang]
  
     {on the job}, alert; performing a responsibility well.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Job \Job\ (j[o^]b), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Jobbed} (j[o^]bd); p.
     pr. & vb. n. {Jobbing}.]
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     1. To strike or stab with a pointed instrument. --L'Estrange.
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     2. To thrust in, as a pointed instrument. --Moxon.
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     3. To do or cause to be done by separate portions or lots; to
        sublet (work); as, to job a contract.
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     4. (Com.) To buy and sell, as a broker; to purchase of
        importers or manufacturers for the purpose of selling to
        retailers; as, to job goods.
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     5. To hire or let by the job or for a period of service; as,
        to job a carriage. --Thackeray.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Job \Job\, v. i.
     1. To do chance work for hire; to work by the piece; to do
        petty work.
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              Authors of all work, to job for the season. --Moore.
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     2. To seek private gain under pretense of public service; to
        turn public matters to private advantage.
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              And judges job, and bishops bite the town. --Pope.
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     3. To carry on the business of a jobber in merchandise or
        stocks.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Job \Job\ (j[=o]b), n.
     The hero of the book of that name in the Old Testament; the
     prototypical patient man.
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     {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.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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
       11: any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without
           despairing
       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: {Book of Job}]
       v 1: profit privately from public office and official business
       2: arranged for contracted work to be done by others [syn: {subcontract},
           {farm out}]
       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" [syn: {speculate}]
       [also: {jobbing}, {jobbed}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  181 Moby Thesaurus words for "job":
     accomplished fact, accomplishment, achievement, act, acta, action,
     adventure, affair, appointment, assignment, bamboozle, be in,
     befool, berth, billet, blow, burglary, business, busywork, calling,
     capacity, caper, carry, character, chare, charge, charter, chicane,
     chore, close out, commission, concern, concernment, connection,
     convert into cash, coup, cut under, deal in, dealings, deed,
     devoir, doing, doings, dump, duty, effect a sale, effort,
     employment, endeavor, engagement, enterprise, errand, exercise,
     exploit, fait accompli, farm, farm out, feat, filch, fish to fry,
     flimflam, fool, function, gest, gig, go, grab, gull, hand,
     handiwork, handle, heist, hire, hire out, hoax, homework,
     incumbency, interest, job of work, labor, lease, lease out,
     lease-back, lease-lend, lend-lease, let, let off, let out, lift,
     line, make a sale, make-work, maneuver, market, matter,
     matters in hand, measure, merchandise, mission, moonlighting, move,
     niche, occupation, odd job, office, opening, operation, overt act,
     part, passage, performance, piece of work, pigeon, pinch, place,
     position, post, posting, proceeding, production, profession,
     project, province, pursuit, racket, rent, rent out, res gestae,
     resell, retail, rip-off, robbery, role, sacrifice, second job,
     sell, sell off, sell on consignment, sell out, sell over,
     sell retail, sell short, sell up, sell wholesale, service,
     situation, slot, spot, station, steal, step, stint, stroke, stunt,
     sublease, sublet, task, tenure, theft, thing, thing done,
     things to do, tour de force, trade, trade in, traffic in,
     transaction, turn, turn into money, turn over, undercut, underlet,
     undersell, undertaking, unload, vacancy, victimize, vocation,
     wholesale, work, works
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  job
       
           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 card}s 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.
       
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From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  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.
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Job, he that weeps or cries
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  JOB. By this term is understood among workmen, the whole of a thing which is 
  to be done. In this sense it is employed in the Civil Code of Louisiana, 
  art. 2727; "to build by plot, or to work by the job," says that article, "is 
  to undertake a building for a certain stipulated price." See Durant. du 
  Contr. de Louage, liv. 8, t. 8, n. 248, 263; Poth. Contr. de Louage, n. 392, 
  394 and Deviation. 
  
  

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:

  Job, KY
    Zip code(s): 41224
  Job, WV
    Zip code(s): 26296