Definition of "job"

job¹

/d͡ʒɒb/

noun
plural jobs
1. A task.
  Quotations
  And it's my job to take care of the skanks on the road that you bang.
  1996, Cameron Crowe, Jerry Maguire
2. An economic role for which a person is paid.
  Quotations
  I was looking for a job and then I found a job / And heaven knows I'm miserable now
  1984, Johnny Marr & Morrissey (lyrics and music), “Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now”, in Hatful of Hollow, performed by The Smiths
  Policing the relationship between government and business in a free society is difficult. Businesspeople have every right to lobby governments, and civil servants to take jobs in the private sector.
  2013 August 10, Schumpeter, “Cronies and capitols”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848
  Here I am at my new job! Audio (US)(file)
  2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
3. (in noun compounds) Plastic surgery.
4. (in noun compounds) A sex act.
5. (computing) A task, or series of tasks, carried out in batch mode (especially on a mainframe computer).
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. (informal) A robbery or heist.
  Quotations
  This freak Vernon got the intelligence on the safe job and passed it on to some other freak, a guy that hears voices in his head and talks back to them. […] We don't think [Vernon's squeeze] is in on the heist, but she apparently is in love with this creep who is laying the pipe in her trough!
  2010, J. Lamar, Honor, Deception and Justice, page 53
8. Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately.
9. (colloquial) A thing or whatsit (often used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall).
  Quotations
  One of them was about nine years ago when I stood in white tie and tails beside a little blonde job (laughter and applause) down in front of the First Methodist Church of Birmingham, […]
  1936, Proceedings of the annual meeting of the American Warehousemen's Association, volume 45, page 376
10. (UK, slang, law enforcement) The police as a profession, act of policing, or an individual police officer.
  Quotations
  “He was ex-job, Beavis. Detective sergeant out of County, Banbury, retired in ‘59.”
  2018 February 11, Colin Dexter, Russell Lewis, 14:17 from the start, in Endeavour(Cartouche), season 5, episode 2 (TV series), spoken by DS Endeavour Morse (Shaun Evans)
  But there it was on the screen: The personal details of his old colleague from Kennington station in the late nineties. […] She’s job. We used to work together.
  2018 July 24, Chris Merritt, Last Witness:A Gripping Crime Thriller You Won’t Be Able To Put Down
  “I’m job, D.S Townsend. I have to report a missing person.”
  2022 February 9, Daragh Carville, Richard Clark, Furquan Akhtar, 01:33 from the start, in The Bay, season 3, episode 5, spoken by D.S Jenn Townsend (Marsha Thomason)
verb
third-person singular simple present jobs, present participle jobbing, simple past and past participle jobbed
1. (intransitive) To do odd jobs or occasional work for hire.
  Quotations
  Authors of all work, to job for the season.
  a. 1852, Thomas Moore, Literary Advertisement
2. (intransitive) To work as a jobber.
3. (intransitive, professional wrestling slang) To take the loss, usually in a demeaning or submissive manner.
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.
  Quotations
  And judges job, and bishops bite the town.
  1733, Alexander Pope, Epistle to Bathurst
7. To hire or let in periods of service.
  Quotations
  […] ...and a pair of handsome horses were jobbed, with which Jos drove about in state in the park...
  1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848

job²

/d͡ʒɒb/

verb
third-person singular simple present jobs, present participle jobbing, simple past and past participle jobbed
1. (intransitive, now rare, regional) To peck (of a bird); (more generally) to poke or prod (at, into).
  Quotations
  a raven pitch'd upon him, and there sate, jobbing of the sore
  1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […]
2. (transitive) To pierce or poke (someone or something), typically with a sharp or pointed object; to stab.
  Quotations
  He had ‘jobbed out’ the eye of one gentleman.
  1844, Charles Dickens, chapter 33, in Martin Chuzzlewit
3. (transitive, now Australia) To hit (someone) with a quick, sharp punch; to jab.
  Quotations
  A stranger jobbed me in the mug so hard that I fell off my chair.
  2001, Richard Flanagan, Gould's Book of Fish, Vintage, published 2016, page 40
noun
plural jobs
1. (obsolete) A sudden thrust or stab; a jab or punch.
  Quotations
  Fair dinkum, a man ought to give you a job in the b— face.
  1937 October 14, The Western Mail, Perth

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