Definition (noun) the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
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he's not in my line of business
Definition (noun) a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee
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estimates of the city's loss on that job ranged as high as a million dollars
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the job of repairing the engine took several hours
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the endless task of classifying the samples
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the farmer's morning chores
Definition (noun) a workplace; as in the expression
Definition (noun) an object worked on; a result produced by working
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he held the job in his left hand and worked on it with his right
Definition (noun) the responsibility to do something
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it is their job to print the truth
Definition (noun) the performance of a piece of work
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she did an outstanding job as Ophelia
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he gave it up as a bad job
Definition (noun) a damaging piece of work
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dry rot did the job of destroying the barn
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the barber did a real job on my hair
Definition (noun) a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved
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she and her husband are having problems
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it is always a job to contact him
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urban problems such as traffic congestion and smog
Definition (noun) a Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him
Definition (noun) any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing
Definition (noun) (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit
Definition (noun) a book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply
Definition (noun) a crime (especially a robbery)
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the gang pulled off a bank job in St. Louis
Definition (verb) profit privately from public office and official business
Definition (verb) arranged for contracted work to be done by others
Definition (verb) work occasionally
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As a student I jobbed during the semester breaks
Definition (verb) invest at a risk
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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