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English noun: job | |||
| 1. | job (act) the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money | ||
| Samples | He's not in my line of business. | ||
| Synonyms | business, line, line of work, occupation | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | activity | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | accountancy, accounting, appointment, berth, billet, biz, calling, career, catering, confectionery, craft, employment, farming, game, land, medium, metier, office, photography, place, position, post, profession, salt mine, situation, sport, spot, trade, treadmill, vocation, work | ||
| 2. | job (act) a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee | ||
| Samples | 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. | ||
| Synonyms | chore, task | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | duty | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | ball-breaker, ball-buster, scut work, shitwork, stint | ||
| 3. | job (artifact) a workplace; as in the expression | ||
| Samples | On the job. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | work, workplace | ||
| 4. | job (artifact) an object worked on; a result produced by working | ||
| Samples | He held the job in his left hand and worked on it with his right. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | product, production | ||
| 5. | job (act) the responsibility to do something | ||
| Samples | It is their job to print the truth. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | duty, obligation, responsibility | ||
| 6. | job (act) the performance of a piece of work | ||
| Samples | She did an outstanding job as Ophelia. He gave it up as a bad job. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | work | ||
| 7. | job (act) a damaging piece of work | ||
| Samples | Dry rot did the job of destroying the barn. The barber did a real job on my hair. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | work | ||
| 8. | job (state) a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved | ||
| Samples | She and her husband are having problems. It is always a job to contact him. Urban problems such as traffic congestion and smog. | ||
| Synonyms | problem | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | difficulty | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | balance-of-payments problem, race problem | ||
| 9. | Job (person) a Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him | ||
| Instance hypernym | hero | ||
| 10. | Job (person) any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | unfortunate, unfortunate person | ||
| 11. | job (communication) (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | application, application program, applications programme | ||
| Domain category | computer science, computing | ||
| 12. | Job (communication) a book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply | ||
| Synonyms | Book of Job | ||
| Instance hypernym | book | ||
| Part meronym | Hagiographa, Ketubim, Old Testament, Writings | ||
| 13. | job (act) a crime (especially a robbery) | ||
| Samples | The gang pulled off a bank job in St. Louis. | ||
| Synonyms | caper | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | robbery | ||
English verb: job | |||
| 1. | job (social) profit privately from public office and official business | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | cheat, chisel | ||
| 2. | job (social) arranged for contracted work to be done by others | ||
| Synonyms | farm out, subcontract | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s something to somebody | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | employ, engage, hire | ||
| 3. | job (social) work occasionally | ||
| Samples | As a student I jobbed during the semester breaks. | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s PP | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | do work, work | ||
| 4. | job (possession) invest at a risk | ||
| Samples | 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. | ||
| Synonyms | speculate | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s. Somebody ----s PP | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | commit, invest, place, put | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | bull | ||
Based on WordNet 3.0 copyright © Princeton University.
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