job
/d͡ʒɑb/ noun A1- A task. · I've got a job for you: could you wash the dishes?· I didn't speak to many coworkers for the first year on the job.
- An economic role for which a person is paid. · That surgeon has a great job.· He's been out of a job since being made redundant in January.
- Plastic surgery. · He had a nose job.
- A sex act. · hand job
- A task, or series of tasks, carried out in batch mode (especially on a mainframe computer).
- A public transaction done for private profit; something performed ostensibly as a part of official duty, but really for private gain; a corrupt official business.
- A robbery or heist. · a bank job
- Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately.
Plural jobs
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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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