3 definitions found 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}.] [1913 Webster] 1. To strike or stab with a pointed instrument. --L'Estrange. [1913 Webster] 2. To thrust in, as a pointed instrument. --Moxon. [1913 Webster] 3. To do or cause to be done by separate portions or lots; to sublet (work); as, to job a contract. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 5. To hire or let by the job or for a period of service; as, to job a carriage. --Thackeray. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: jobbed See {job} 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}]
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