job
/d͡ʒɑb/ verb C2- To pierce or poke (someone or something), typically with a sharp or pointed object; to stab.
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.
I used to be able to keep two assistants, but now I only keep one; and I would have a job to pay him but that he is willing to come for half wages so as to learn the business.”
Having an English job to do, they took into partnership, as any foreign criminal could do, this great consultant in crime.
It will be a London job before it is finished.” He raised the hand lamp and walked slowly round the room.
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