job

  1. Proper noun.  (biblical) A book of the Old Testament and the Hebrew Tanakh.
  2. Proper noun.  (given name, male) .
  3. Proper noun.  An Old Testament character.
  4. Noun.  A task.
  5. Noun.  An economic role for which a person is paid.
  6. Noun.  (context, in noun compounds) Plastic surgery; ''see e.g.'' nose job.
  7. Noun.  (computing) A task, or series of tasks, carried out in batch mode (especially on a mainframe computer).
  8. Verb.  (intransitive) To do odd jobs or occasional work for hire.
  9. Verb.  (intransitive) To work as a jobber.
  10. Verb.  (intransitive, professional wrestling) To take the loss.
  11. Verb.  (transitive, trading) To buy and sell for profit, as securities; to speculate in.
  12. Verb.  (transitive, often) To subcontract a project or delivery in small portions to a number of contractors.

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