• a damaging piece of work; "dry rot did the Job of destroying the barn"; "the barber did a real Job on my hair"
• the performance of a piece of work; "she did an outstanding Job as Ophelia"; "he gave it up as a bad Job"
• the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money; "he''s not in my line of business"
• the responsibility to do something; "it is their Job to print the truth"
• a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee; "estimates of the city''s loss on that Job ranged as high as a million dollars"; "the Job of repairing the engine took several hours"; "the endless task of classifying the sampl
• a crime (especially a robbery); "the gang pulled off a bank Job in St. Louis"
• a workplace; as in the expression "on the Job";
• an object worked on; a result produced by working; "he held the Job in his left hand and worked on it with his right"
• a book in the Old Testament containing Job''s pleas to God about his afflictions and God''s reply
• (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit
• any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing
• a Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him
• a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved; "she and her husband are having problems"; "it is always a Job to contact him"; "urban problems such as traffic congestion and smog"
• invest at a risk; "I bought this house not because I want to live in it but to sell it later at a good price, so I am speculating"
• work occasionally; "As a student I Jobbed during the semester breaks"
• arranged for contracted work to be done by others
• profit privately from public office and official business

'Job' in other languages