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What does job mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word job? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. A task.
  2. An economic role for which a person is paid.
  3. (in noun compounds) Plastic surgery.
  4. (computing) A task, or series of tasks, carried out in batch mode (especially on a mainframe computer).
  5. (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought): A sudden thrust or stab; a jab.
  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.
  7. Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately.
  8. A thing (often used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall).
Verb
  1. (intransitive) To do odd jobs or occasional work for hire.
  2. (intransitive) To work as a jobber.
  3. (intransitive, professional wrestling slang) To take the loss.
  4. (transitive, trading) To buy and sell for profit, as securities; to speculate in.
  5. (transitive, often with out) To subcontract a project or delivery in small portions to a number of contractors.
  6. (intransitive) To seek private gain under pretence of public service; to turn public matters to private advantage.
  7. To strike or stab with a pointed instrument.
  8. To thrust in, as a pointed instrument.
  9. To hire or let in periods of service.
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