job

v. do paid work now and then, do odd jobs; work as a middleman, buy and sell; hire temporarily for a specific task; portion out pieces of work to different individuals; punish or take away unfairly

n. work, employment, occupation; task; piece of work, duty, assignment; product of work done; manner in which work is done; problem, difficulty; theft, robbery, crime (Slang); task, procedure, assignment (Computers)

n. Biblical figure who suffered many misfortunes but retained his faith in God; book of the Old Testament named for Job; male first name

Job may refer to:EmploymentJob (software), a scheduled and/or automated task for a computer in a batch processing environmentBook of Job, part of the Tanakh or Old TestamentJob (Bible), the individual for whom the Book of Job was named, a novel by Robert A. HeinleinJob (professional wrestling), a wrestling performer who loses a matchLa Job, a Quebec adaptation of the British cult TV series The OfficeJobs (Remnants), a major character from K. A. Applegate's Remnants seriesJob ben Solomon, a Muslim slave who was a victim of the Atlantic slave tradeJob, a minor Biblical figureJob (novel), a novel by Joseph RothJob, a character from the Preston-Child novel Still Life with CrowsSteve Jobs, co-founder and CEO of Apple Inc.
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The Book of Job (איוב) is one of the books of the Hebrew Bible. Job is a didactic poem set in a prose framing device. According to the Testament of Job, another name for Job is Jobab. Genesis 36:33 identifies a Jobab, as a descendant of Esau, a king of Edom.The Book of Job has been called the most difficult book of the Bible. The numerous exegeses of the Book of Job are classic attempts to reconcile the co-existence of evil and God and address the problem of evil. Scholars are divided as to the origin, intent, and meaning of the book.
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Noun
1. a Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him
(hypernym) hero
2. any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing
(hypernym) unfortunate, unfortunate person
3. a book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply
(synonym) Book of Job
(hypernym) book
(part-holonym) Hagiographa, Ketubim, Writings

Noun
1. the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money; "he's not in my line of business"
(synonym) occupation, business, line of work, line
(hypernym) activity
(hyponym) sport
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"
(synonym) task, chore
(hypernym) duty
(hyponym) ball-buster, ball-breaker
3. the performance of a piece of work; "she did an outstanding job as Ophelia"; "he gave it up as a bad job"
(hypernym) work
4. the responsibility to do something; "it is their job to print the truth"
(hypernym) duty, responsibility, obligation
5. a workplace; as in the expression "on the job";
(hypernym) workplace, work
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"
(hypernym) product, production
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"
(synonym) problem
(hypernym) difficulty
(hyponym) race 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"
(hypernym) work
9. a crime (especially a robbery); "the gang pulled off a bank job in St. Louis"
(synonym) caper
(hypernym) robbery
10. (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit
(hypernym) application, application program, applications programme
(classification) computer science, computing
Verb
1. profit privately from public office and official business
(hypernym) cheat, chisel
2. arranged for contracted work to be done by others
(synonym) subcontract, farm out
(hypernym) hire, engage, employ
3. work occasionally; "As a student I jobbed during the semester breaks"
(hypernym) work, do work
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"
(synonym) speculate
(hypernym) invest, put, commit, place
(hyponym) bull

n. Job, Biblical figure who suffered many misfortunes but retained his faith in God; book of the Old Testament named for Job; male first name

n. job, work, employment, office

n. Job, Biblical figure who suffered many misfortunes but retained his faith in God; book of the Old Testament named for Job; male first name