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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Job \Job\ (j[o^]b), noun [Prov. E. job, gob, noun, a small piece of wood, v., to stab, strike; cf. E. gob, gobbet; perh. influenced by E. chop to cut off, to mince. See {Gob}.]
1. A sudden thrust or stab; a jab.
2. A piece of chance or occasional work; any definite work undertaken in gross for a fixed price; as, he did the job for a thousand dollars.
3. 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. Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately. [Colloq.]
5. A situation or opportunity of work; as, he lost his job. [Colloq.]
6. A task, or the execution of a task; as, Michelangelo did a great job on the David statue. [PJC]
7. (Computers) A task or coordinated set of tasks for a multitasking computer, submitted for processing as a single unit, usually for execution in background. See {job control language}. [PJC]
Note: Job is used adjectively to signify doing jobs, used for jobs, or let on hire to do jobs; as, job printer; job master; job horse; job wagon, etc.
{By the job}, at a stipulated sum for the work, or for each piece of work done; -- distinguished from {time work}; as, the house was built by the job.
{Job lot}, a quantity of goods, usually miscellaneous, sold out of the regular course of trade, at a certain price for the whole; as, these articles were included in a job lot.
{Job master}, one who lest out horses and carriages for hire, as for family use. [Eng.]
{Job printer}, one who does miscellaneous printing, esp. circulars, cards, billheads, etc.
{Odd job}, miscellaneous work of a petty kind; occasional work, of various kinds, or for various people.
{to do a job on}, to harm badly or destroy. [slang]
{on the job}, alert; performing a responsibility well. [slang] [1913 Webster +PJC]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Job \Job\ (j[o^]b), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Jobbed} (j[o^]bd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Jobbing}.]
1. To strike or stab with a pointed instrument. --L'Estrange.
2. To thrust in, as a pointed instrument. --Moxon.
3. To do or cause to be done by separate portions or lots; to sublet (work); as, to job a contract.
4. (Com.) To buy and sell, as a broker; to purchase of importers or manufacturers for the purpose of selling to retailers; as, to job goods.
5. To hire or let by the job or for a period of service; as, to job a carriage. --Thackeray.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Job \Job\, verb (used without an object)
1. To do chance work for hire; to work by the piece; to do petty work.
Authors of all work, to job for the season. --Moore.
2. To seek private gain under pretense of public service; to turn public matters to private advantage.
And judges job, and bishops bite the town. --Pope.
3. To carry on the business of a jobber in merchandise or stocks.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Job \Job\ (j[=o]b), noun The hero of the book of that name in the Old Testament; the prototypical patient man.
{Job's comforter}. (a) A false friend; a tactless or malicious person who, under pretense of sympathy, insinuates rebukes. (b) A boil. [Colloq.]
{Job's news}, bad news. --Carlyle.
{Job's tears} (Bot.), a kind of grass ({Coix Lacryma}), with hard, shining, pearly grains.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
job
noun
1: the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money; "he's not in my line of business" [syn: {occupation}, {business}, {line of work}, {line}]
2: a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee; "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" [syn: {task}, {chore}]
3: the performance of a piece of work; "she did an outstanding job as Ophelia"; "he gave it up as a bad job"
4: the responsibility to do something; "it is their job to print the truth"
5: a workplace; as in the expression "on the job";
6: an object worked on; a result produced by working; "he held the job in his left hand and worked on it with his right"
7: a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved; "she and her husband are having problems"; "it is always a job to contact him"; "urban problems such as traffic congestion and smog" [syn: {problem}]
8: a damaging piece of work; "dry rot did the job of destroying the barn"; "the barber did a real job on my hair"
9: a crime (especially a robbery); "the gang pulled off a bank job in St. Louis" [syn: {caper}]
10: a Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him
11: any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing
12: (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit
13: a book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply [syn: {Book of Job}]
verb
1: profit privately from public office and official business
2: arranged for contracted work to be done by others [syn: {subcontract}, {farm out}]
3: work occasionally; "As a student I jobbed during the semester breaks"
4: invest at a risk; "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" [syn: {speculate}] [also: {jobbing}, {jobbed}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
181 Moby Thesaurus words for "job": accomplished fact, accomplishment, achievement, act, acta, action, adventure, affair, appointment, assignment, bamboozle, be in, befool, berth, billet, blow, burglary, business, busywork, calling, capacity, caper, carry, character, chare, charge, charter, chicane, chore, close out, commission, concern, concernment, connection, convert into cash, coup, cut under, deal in, dealings, deed, devoir, doing, doings, dump, duty, effect a sale, effort, employment, endeavor, engagement, enterprise, errand, exercise, exploit, fait accompli, farm, farm out, feat, filch, fish to fry, flimflam, fool, function, gest, gig, go, grab, gull, hand, handiwork, handle, heist, hire, hire out, hoax, homework, incumbency, interest, job of work, labor, lease, lease out, lease-back, lease-lend, lend-lease, let, let off, let out, lift, line, make a sale, make-work, maneuver, market, matter, matters in hand, measure, merchandise, mission, moonlighting, move, niche, occupation, odd job, office, opening, operation, overt act, part, passage, performance, piece of work, pigeon, pinch, place, position, post, posting, proceeding, production, profession, project, province, pursuit, racket, rent, rent out, res gestae, resell, retail, rip-off, robbery, role, sacrifice, second job, sell, sell off, sell on consignment, sell out, sell over, sell retail, sell short, sell up, sell wholesale, service, situation, slot, spot, station, steal, step, stint, stroke, stunt, sublease, sublet, task, tenure, theft, thing, thing done, things to do, tour de force, trade, trade in, traffic in, transaction, turn, turn into money, turn over, undercut, underlet, undersell, undertaking, unload, vacancy, victimize, vocation, wholesale, work, works
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
job All the activities involved in completing any project on a computer from start to finish. A job may involve several processes and several programs. This term is rather old fashioned and harks back to the days of {batch} processing where a user would submit his job as a deck of {punched card}s which would typically include {source code} interspersed with {job control language} instructions to guide the various phases of the job such as compilation, linking, execution and printing. (1995-05-07)
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Job, KY Zip code(s): 41224 Job, WV Zip code(s): 26296
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Job persecuted, an Arabian patriarch who resided in the land of Uz (q.v.). While living in the midst of great prosperity, he was suddenly overwhelmed by a series of sore trials that fell upon him. Amid all his sufferings he maintained his integrity. Once more God visited him with the rich tokens of his goodness and even greater prosperity than he had enjoyed before. He survived the period of trial for one hundred and forty years, and died in a good old age, an example to succeeding generations of integrity (Ezek. 14:14, 20) and of submissive patience under the sorest calamities (James 5:11). His history, so far as it is known, is recorded in his book.
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
Job, he that weeps or cries
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