job
/d͡ʒɑb/ verb C2- To do odd jobs or occasional work for hire.
- To work as a jobber.
- To take the loss, usually in a demeaning or submissive manner.
- To buy and sell for profit, as securities; to speculate in.
- To subcontract a project or delivery in small portions to a number of contractors. · We wanted to sell a turnkey plant, but they jobbed out the contract to small firms.
- To seek private gain under pretence of public service; to turn public matters to private advantage.
- To hire or let in periods of service. · to job a carriage
He/she/it jobs · Past jobbed · Past participle jobbed · -ing form jobbing
Verb forms
- Base form
- job
- He/she/it
- jobs
- Past
- jobbed
- Past participle
- jobbed
- -ing form
- jobbing
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Yesterday he was out as a workman looking for a job.
"But that's not our job.
This Job’s comforting seemed neither to offend nor to alarm Marilla.
Having an English job to do, they took into partnership, as any foreign criminal could do, this great consultant in crime.
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