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job

/d͡ʒɑb/ verb C2
  1. To pierce or poke (someone or something), typically with a sharp or pointed object; to stab. (transitive)

He/she/it jobs · Past jobbed · Past participle jobbed · -ing form jobbing

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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.
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, p. 29 · B2
"But that's not our job.
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, p. 94 · B2
This Job’s comforting seemed neither to offend nor to alarm Marilla.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 8 · C1
Having an English job to do, they took into partnership, as any foreign criminal could do, this great consultant in crime.
The Valley of Fear, p. 102 · C1

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