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English to English noun
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the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money |  | Example: he's not in my line of business
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a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee | | Example: 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 samples
the farmer's morning chores
source: wordnet30
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a workplace; as in the expression | | Example: on the job
source: wordnet30
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an object worked on; a result produced by working | | Example: he held the job in his left hand and worked on it with his right
source: wordnet30
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the responsibility to do something | | Example: it is their job to print the truth
source: wordnet30
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the performance of a piece of work | | Example: she did an outstanding job as Ophelia
he gave it up as a bad job
source: wordnet30
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a damaging piece of work | | Example: dry rot did the job of destroying the barn
the barber did a real job on my hair
source: wordnet30
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a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved | | Example: she and her husband are having problems
it is always a job to contact him
urban problems such as traffic congestion and smog
source: wordnet30
| 9 |
a Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him | | source: wordnet30
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any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing | | source: wordnet30
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(computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit | | source: wordnet30
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a book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply | | source: wordnet30
| 13 |
a crime (especially a robbery) | | Example: the gang pulled off a bank job in St. Louis
source: wordnet30
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A sudden thrust or stab; a jab. | | source: webster1913
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The hero of the book of that name in the Old Testament; the typical patient man. | | source: webster1913 verb
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profit privately from public office and official business | | source: wordnet30
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arranged for contracted work to be done by others | | source: wordnet30
| 18 |
work occasionally | | Example: As a student I jobbed during the semester breaks
source: wordnet30
| 19 |
invest at a risk | | Example: 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
source: wordnet30
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To strike or stab with a pointed instrument. | | source: webster1913
| 21 |
To do chance work for hire; to work by the piece; to do petty work. | | source: webster1913
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