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job

noun
/dʒɒb/CA/dʒɑb/US/d͡ʒəʊb/

Etymology

From the phrase jobbe of work (“piece of work”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from a variant of Middle English gobbe (“mass, lump”); or perhaps related to Middle English jobben (“to jab, thrust, peck”), or Middle English choppe (“piece, bargain”). More at gob, jab, chop.

  1. derived from choppe — “piece, bargain”
  2. derived from jobben — “to jab, thrust, peck”
  3. inherited from gobbe — “mass, lump”

Definitions

  1. A task.

    • I've got a job for you: could you wash the dishes?
    • I didn't speak to many coworkers for the first year on the job.
    • And it's my job to take care of the skanks on the road that you bang.

  2. An economic role for which a person is paid.

    • That surgeon has a great job.
    • He's been out of a job since being made redundant in January.
    • I was looking for a job and then I found a job / And heaven knows I'm miserable now

  3. Plastic surgery.

    • He had a nose job.
  4. ›+ 23 more definitions

    1. A sex act.

      • hand job

    2. A task, or series of tasks, carried out in batch mode (especially on a mainframe…

      A task, or series of tasks, carried out in batch mode (especially on a mainframe computer).

    3. A public transaction done for private profit

      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.

    4. A robbery or heist.

      • a bank job

    5. Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately.

    6. A thing or whatsit (often used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot…

      A thing or whatsit (often used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall).

      • Pass me that little job with the screw thread on it.
      • One of them was about nine years ago when I stood in white tie and tails beside a little blonde job (laughter and applause) down in front of the First Methodist Church of Birmingham, […]

    7. The police as a profession, act of policing, or an individual police officer.

      • “He was ex-job, Beavis. Detective sergeant out of County, Banbury, retired in ‘59.”
      • But there it was on the screen: The personal details of his old colleague from Kennington station in the late nineties.[…]She’s job. We used to work together.
      • “I’m job, D.S Townsend. I have to report a missing person.”

    8. A penis.

    9. To do odd jobs or occasional work for hire.

      • Authors of all work, to job for the season.

    10. To work as a jobber.

    11. To take the loss, usually in a demeaning or submissive manner.

    12. To buy and sell for profit, as securities

      To buy and sell for profit, as securities; to speculate in.

    13. To subcontract a project or delivery in small portions to a number of contractors.

      • We wanted to sell a turnkey plant, but they jobbed out the contract to small firms.

    14. To seek private gain under pretence of public service

      To seek private gain under pretence of public service; to turn public matters to private advantage.

      • And judges job, and bishops bite the town.

    15. To hire or let in periods of service.

      • to job a carriage
      • […] ...and a pair of handsome horses were jobbed, with which Jos drove about in state in the park...

    16. To peck (of a bird)

      To peck (of a bird); (more generally) to poke or prod (at, into).

      • a raven pitch'd upon him, and there sate, jobbing of the sore

    17. To pierce or poke (someone or something), typically with a sharp or pointed object

      To pierce or poke (someone or something), typically with a sharp or pointed object; to stab.

      • He had ‘jobbed out’ the eye of one gentleman.

    18. To hit (someone) with a quick, sharp punch

      To hit (someone) with a quick, sharp punch; to jab.

      • A stranger jobbed me in the mug so hard that I fell off my chair.

    19. A sudden thrust or stab

      A sudden thrust or stab; a jab or punch.

      • Fair dinkum, a man ought to give you a job in the b— face.

    20. A book of the Old Testament and the Hebrew Tanakh.

    21. A male given name from Hebrew.

    22. A character in the Old Testament and the Qur'an, renowned for his patience.

    23. A person who shows remarkable patience, especially in the face of great misfortune.

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Derived

3D job, bad job, bag job, batch job, black bag job, bladejob, bleach job, blowjob, blow job, blue job, bob-a-job, bob-job, bodge job, boob job, botched job, botch job, brow job, brown job, bullshit job, butt job, by the job, chin job, cronjob, day job, desk job, don't give up the day job, don't give up your day job, don't quit your day job, do one's job, do the job, double-jobbing, dream job, dump job, dye job, eye job, face job, fang job, flex job, foot job, full-time job · +174 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at job. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01job02role03expected04arrive05obtain06reached07reach08thrust09forward10acting

A definitional loop anchored at job. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at job

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA