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job

/d͡ʒɑb/ noun A1
  1. A task. (countable, uncountable) · 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.
  2. An economic role for which a person is paid. (countable, uncountable) · That surgeon has a great job.· He's been out of a job since being made redundant in January.
  3. Plastic surgery. (countable, uncountable) · He had a nose job.
  4. A sex act. (countable, uncountable) · hand job
  5. A task, or series of tasks, carried out in batch mode (especially on a mainframe computer). (countable, uncountable)
  6. 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. (countable, uncountable)
  7. A robbery or heist. (countable, informal, uncountable) · a bank job
  8. Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately. (countable, uncountable)

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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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