Meaning of job | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A sudden thrust or stab; a jab or punch.
   obsolete
2. work, job
3. A task.
   countable, uncountable
4. ISO 639-3 language code for Joba
5. A book of the Old Testament and the Hebrew Tanakh.
6. A person who shows remarkable patience, especially in the face of great misfortune.
   figuratively
7. work
8. A task
9. A male given name from Hebrew.
10. An economic role for which a person is paid.
    countable, uncountable
11. Plastic surgery.
    countable, uncountable
12. first-person singular present indicative of trabajar
13. An economic role for which a person is paid
14. A character in the Old Testament and the Qur'an, renowned for his patience.
15. A sex act.
    countable, uncountable
16. Plastic surgery
17. A task, or series of tasks, carried out in batch mode (especially on a mainframe computer).
    countable, uncountable
18. A sex act
19. 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.
    countable, uncountable
20. A robbery or heist.
    countable, informal, uncountable
21. Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately.
    countable, uncountable
22. A thing or whatsit (often used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall).
    colloquial, countable, uncountable
23. The police as a profession, act of policing, or an individual police officer.
    UK, slang, uncountable
24. A penis.
    countable, slang, uncountable, vulgar

Equivalents

Examples

“I've got a job for you: could you wash the dishes?”

“And it's my job to take care of the skanks on the road that you bang.”

“That surgeon has a great job.”

“He's been out of a job since being made redundant in January.”

“I was looking for a job and then I found a job / And heaven knows I'm miserable now”

“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.”

“Here I am at my new job!”

“He had a nose job.”

“hand job”

“You men have no idea what we're dealing with down there. Teeth placement, and jaw stress, and suction, and gag reflex, and all the while bobbing up and down, moaning and trying to breathe through our noses. Easy? Honey, they don't call it a job for nothing.”

“a bank job”

“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!”

“Pass me that little job with the screw thread on it.”

“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, […]”

““He was ex-job, Beavis. Detective sergeant out of County, Banbury, retired in ‘59.””

“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.”

““I’m job, D.S Townsend. I have to report a missing person.””

“Fair dinkum, a man ought to give you a job in the b— face.”

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