Dictionary - job

Dictionary Results for job

1. job - noun

· the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money; "he's not in my line of business"

Synonym(s): occupation, business, line_of_work, line

Hypernym(s): activity

2. job - noun

· 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(s): task, chore

Hypernym(s): duty

3. job - noun

· a workplace; as in the expression `on the job'

Hypernym(s): workplace, work

4. job - noun

· 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(s): product, production

5. job - noun

· the responsibility to do something; "it is their job to print the truth"

Hypernym(s): duty, responsibility, obligation

6. job - noun

· the performance of a piece of work; "she did an outstanding job as Ophelia"; "he gave it up as a bad job"

Hypernym(s): work

7. job - noun

· a damaging piece of work; "dry rot did the job of destroying the barn"; "the barber did a real job on my hair"

Hypernym(s): work

8. job - noun

· 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(s): problem

Hypernym(s): difficulty

9. job - noun

· a Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him

Synonym(s): Job

10. job - noun

· any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing

Synonym(s): Job

Hypernym(s): unfortunate, unfortunate_person

11. job - noun

· (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit

Hypernym(s): application, application_program, applications_programme