"job" | Definition and Related Words

job

Noun

The principal activity in your life that you do to earn money (synset 100583425)
"he's not in my line of business"

is a type of: activity - any specific behavior
subtypes:
- confectionery - the occupation and skills of a confectioner
- sport - the occupation of athletes who compete for pay
- farming, land - agriculture considered as an occupation or way of life
- biz, game - your occupation or line of work
- calling, career, vocation - the particular occupation for which you are trained
- employment, work - the occupation for which you are paid
- appointment - the job to which you are (or hope to be) appointed
- berth, billet, office, place, position, post, situation, spot - a job in an organization
- salt mine, treadmill - a job involving drudgery and confinement
- craft, trade - the skilled practice of a practical occupation
- profession - an occupation requiring special education (especially in the liberal arts or sciences)
- medium, metier - an occupation for which you are especially well suited
- accountancy, accounting - the occupation of maintaining and auditing records and preparing financial reports for a business
- photography - the occupation of taking and printing photographs or making movies
- catering - providing food and services
same as: business, line, line of work, occupation
A specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee (synset 100720957)
"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"

is a type of: duty - work that you are obliged to perform for moral or legal reasons
subtypes:
- ball-breaker, ball-buster - a job or situation that is demanding and arduous and punishing
- stint - an individual's prescribed share of work
- scut work, shitwork - trivial, unrewarding, tedious, dirty, and disagreeable chores
same as: chore, task
A workplace;
As in the expression `on the job' (synset 103604821)
is a type of: work, workplace - a place where work is done
An object worked on;
A result produced by working (synset 103604953)
"he held the job in his left hand and worked on it with his right"

is a type of: product, production - an artifact that has been created by someone or some process
The responsibility to do something (synset 100585806)
"it is their job to print the truth"

is a type of: duty, obligation, responsibility - the social force that binds you to the courses of action demanded by that force
The performance of a piece of work (synset 100577914)
"she did an outstanding job as Ophelia"; "he gave it up as a bad job"

is a type of: work - activity directed toward making or doing something
A damaging piece of work (synset 100577754)
"dry rot did the job of destroying the barn"; "the barber did a real job on my hair"

is a type of: work - activity directed toward making or doing something
A state of difficulty that needs to be resolved (synset 114434009)
"she and her husband are having problems"; "it is always a job to contact him"; "urban problems such as traffic congestion and smog"

is a type of: difficulty - a condition or state of affairs almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring great effort to bear or overcome
subtypes:
- race problem - a social and political problem caused by conflict between races occupying the same or adjacent regions
- balance-of-payments problem - an economic problem caused by payments for imports being greater than receipts for exports
same as: problem
A Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him (synset 111105392)
is an instance of: hero - a man distinguished by exceptional courage and nobility and strength
Any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing (synset 110242619)
is a type of: unfortunate, unfortunate person - a person who suffers misfortune
(computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit (synset 106584658)
referred to in: computer science, computing - the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures

is a type of: application, application program, applications programme - a program that gives a computer instructions that provide the user with tools to accomplish a task
A book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply (synset 106448609)
is an instance of: book - a major division of a long written composition
is a part of:
- 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
- hagiographa, ketubim, writings - the third of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures
same as: book of job
A crime (especially a robbery) (synset 100784446)
"the gang pulled off a bank job in St. Louis"

is a type of: robbery - larceny by threat of violence

same as: caper

Verb

Profit privately from public office and official business (synset 202578970)
is a type of: cheat, chisel - engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud
Arranged for contracted work to be done by others (synset 202466486)
is a type of: employ, engage, hire - engage or hire for work

same as: farm out, subcontract
Work occasionally (synset 202425889)
"As a student I jobbed during the semester breaks"

is a type of: do work, work - be employed
Invest at a risk (synset 202276935)
"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"

is a type of: commit, invest, place, put - make an investment

subtypes: bull - try to raise the price of stocks through speculative buying

same as: speculate

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