job 1 |jäb|
noun
1 a paid position of regular employment : jobs are created in the private sector, not in Washington | a part-time job.
2 a task or piece of work, esp. one that is paid : she wants to be left alone to get on with the job | you did a good job of explaining.
• a responsibility or duty : it's our job to find things out.
• [in sing. ] informal a difficult task : we thought you'd have a job getting there.
• [with adj. ] informal a procedure to improve the appearance of something, esp. an operation involving plastic surgery : she's had a nose job | someone had done a skillful paint job.
• [with adj. ] informal a thing of a specified nature : the car was a blue malevolent-looking job.
• informal a crime, esp. a robbery : a series of daring bank jobs.
• Computing an operation or group of operations treated as a single and distinct unit.
verb ( jobbed, jobbing )
1 [ intrans. ] [usu. as adj. ] ( jobbing) do casual or occasional work : a jobbing builder.
2 [ trans. ] buy and sell (stocks) as a broker-dealer, esp. on a small scale.
3 [ trans. ] informal cheat; betray.
4 [ intrans. ] archaic turn a public office or a position of trust to private advantage.
PHRASES
do the job informal achieve the required result : a piece of board will do the job.
do a job on someone informal do something that harms or defeats an opponent : I go out and do a job on anyone who is giving our top scorers a hard time.
a good job informal chiefly Brit. a fortunate fact or circumstance : it was a good job she hadn't brought the car.
on the job while working; at work.
out of a job unemployed.
ORIGIN mid 16th cent. (sense 2 of the noun) : of unknown origin.
job 2 archaic
verb ( jobbed, jobbing ) [ trans. ]
prod or stab : he prepared to job the huge brute.
• thrust (something pointed) at or into something.
noun
an act of prodding, thrusting, or wrenching.
ORIGIN late Middle English : apparently symbolic of a brief forceful action (compare with jab ).
Job |jōb|
(in the Bible) a prosperous man whose patience and piety were tried by undeserved misfortunes, and who, in spite of his bitter lamentations, remained confident in the goodness and justice of God.
• a book of the Bible telling of Job.
1. Steve
2. Legal Assistance
3. Trickle-Down Economist
4. It's tough teaching in Texas.
5. Career Change
6. 1% Wage Increase
7. Dead-End Job
8. Freelanceing
9. Apprentice
10. Investment Counselor
11. Shipping and Handling
12. Optometrist
13. Nut Jobs
Watch them all hip-hop to the far-right as they pander to "the base."
base 2adjective
(of a person or a person's actions or feelings) without moral principles; ignoble : the electorate's baser instincts of greed and selfishness | we hope his motives are nothing so base as money.• archaic denoting or befitting a person of low social class.
• (of coins or other articles) not made of precious metal : the basest coins in the purse were made in the seventh century AD.
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