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