jobs

job[ d??bs ]

• n.
  • the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money

    同义词：occupationbusinessline of workline

  • 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"

    同义词：taskchore

  • the performance of a piece of work

    "she did an outstanding job as Ophelia"; "he gave it up as a bad job"

  • the responsibility to do something

    "it is their job to print the truth"

  • a workplace; as in the expression

    "on the job"

  • an object worked on; a result produced by working

    "he held the job in his left hand and worked on it with his right"

  • a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved

    "it is always a job to contact him"

    同义词：problem

  • a damaging piece of work

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

  • a crime (especially a robbery)

    "the gang pulled off a bank job in St. Louis"

    同义词：caper

  • a Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him
  • any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing
  • (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit
  • a book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply

    同义词：Book of Job

• v.
  • profit privately from public office and official business
  • arranged for contracted work to be done by others

    同义词：subcontractfarm out

  • work occasionally

    "As a student I jobbed during the semester breaks"

  • invest at a risk

    同义词：speculate