Job
n
a a Jewish patriarch, who maintained his faith in God in spite of the afflictions sent by God to test him
b the book containing Job's pleas to God under these afflictions, attempted explanations of them by his friends, and God's reply to him
2 any person who withstands great suffering without despairing
blow job
n
Taboo a slang term for →
fellatio
hatchet job
n
Informal a malicious or devastating verbal or written attack
inside job
n
Informal a crime committed with the assistance of someone associated with the victim, such as a person employed on the premises burgled
job
n
1 an individual piece of work or task
2 an occupation; post of employment
3 an object worked on or a result produced from working
4 a duty or responsibility
her job was to cook the dinner
5 Informal a difficult task or problem
I had a job to contact him
6 a state of affairs
make the best of a bad job, it's a good job I saw you
7 Informal a damaging piece of work
he really did a job on that
8 Informal a crime, esp. a robbery or burglary
9 Informal an article or specimen
the new car was a nice little job
10 an instance of jobbery
11 (Computing) a unit of work for a computer consisting of a single complete task submitted by a user
12 ♦
jobs for the boys appointments given to or created for allies or favourites
a actively engaged in one's employment
b (Brit)
taboo engaged in sexual intercourse
14 ♦
just the job exactly what was required
vb , jobs, jobbing, jobbed
15 intr to work by the piece or at casual jobs
16 to make a private profit out of (a public office, etc.)
17 intr; usually foll by: in
a to buy and sell (goods or services) as a middleman
he jobs in government surplus
b (Brit) to buy and sell stocks and shares as a stockjobber
he jobs in blue chips
18 tr; often foll by: out to apportion (a contract, work, etc.) among several contractors, workers, etc.
(C16: of uncertain origin)
job analysis
n the analysis of the contents of a job in order to provide a job description for such purposes as fitting the job into a grading structure or matching individual capabilities to job requirements
Job Corps
n (U.S) a Federal organization established in 1964 to train unemployed youths in order to make it easier for them to find work
job description
n a detailed written account, agreed between management and worker, of all the duties and responsibilities which together make up a particular job
job enlargement
n a widening of the range of tasks performed by an employee in order to provide variety in the activities undertaken
job evaluation
n the analysis of the relationship between jobs in an organization: often used as a basis for a wages structure
job lot
n
1 a miscellaneous collection of articles sold as a lot
2 a collection of cheap or trivial items
job rotation
n the practice of transferring an employee from one work station or activity to another during the working day in order to add variety to a job: often used in assembly line work
job satisfaction
n the extent to which a person's hopes, desires, and expectations about the employment he is engaged in are fulfilled
Job's comforter
n a person who, while purporting to give sympathy, succeeds only in adding to distress
job sharing
n the division of a job between two or more people such that each covers the same job for complementary parts of the day or week
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job sharer n
Job's-tears
n
1 functioning as sing a tropical Asian grass, Coix lacryma-jobi, cultivated for its white beadlike modified leaves, which contain edible seeds
2 functioning as pl the beadlike structures of this plant, used as rosary or ornamental beads
nose job
n
Slang a surgical remodelling of the nose for cosmetic reasons
snow job
n
Slang (chiefly U.S. and Canadian) an instance of deceiving or overwhelming someone with elaborate often insincere talk