DICTOMETER

JOBS

1. Synonyms:
   • Occupation
   • Business
   • Job
   • Line of work
   • Line
   Definitions:
   • the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
   Examples:
   • He's not in my line of business
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Job
   • Task
   • Chore
   Definitions:
   • a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee
   Examples:
   • 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
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Job
   Definitions:
   • a workplace
   • as in the expression
   Examples:
   • On the job
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Job
   Definitions:
   • an object worked on
   • a result produced by working
   Examples:
   • He held the job in his left hand and worked on it with his right
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Job
   Definitions:
   • the responsibility to do something
   Examples:
   • It is their job to print the truth
   
   
6. Synonyms:
   • Job
   Definitions:
   • the performance of a piece of work
   Examples:
   • She did an outstanding job as Ophelia
   • He gave it up as a bad job
   
   
7. Synonyms:
   • Job
   Definitions:
   • a damaging piece of work
   Examples:
   • Dry rot did the job of destroying the barn
   • The barber did a real job on my hair
   
   
8. Synonyms:
   • Problem
   • Job
   Definitions:
   • a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved
   Examples:
   • She and her husband are having problems
   • It is always a job to contact him
   • Urban problems such as traffic congestion and smog
   
   
9. Synonyms:
   • Job
   Definitions:
   • a Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him
   
   
10. Synonyms:
    • Job
    Definitions:
    • any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing
    
    
11. Synonyms:
    • Job
    Definitions:
    • (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit
    
    
12. Synonyms:
    • Job
    • Book of Job
    Definitions:
    • a book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply
    
    
13. Synonyms:
    • Caper
    • Job
    Definitions:
    • a crime (especially a robbery)
    Examples:
    • The gang pulled off a bank job in St. Louis
    
    

1. Synonyms:
   • Job
   Definitions:
   • profit privately from public office and official business
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Subcontract
   • Farm out
   • Job
   Definitions:
   • arranged for contracted work to be done by others
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Job
   Definitions:
   • work occasionally
   Examples:
   • As a student I jobbed during the semester breaks
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Speculate
   • Job
   Definitions:
   • invest at a risk
   Examples:
   • 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