job
Definitions
- A sudden thrust or stab; a jab or punch.
- work, job
- A task.
- ISO 639-3 language code for Joba
- A book of the Old Testament and the Hebrew Tanakh.
- A person who shows remarkable patience, especially in the face of great misfortune.
- work
- A task
- A male given name from Hebrew.
- An economic role for which a person is paid.
- Plastic surgery.
- first-person singular present indicative of trabajar
- An economic role for which a person is paid
- A character in the Old Testament and the Qur'an, renowned for his patience.
- A sex act.
- Plastic surgery
- A task, or series of tasks, carried out in batch mode (especially on a mainframe computer).
- A sex act
- 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.
- A robbery or heist.
- Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately.
- A thing or whatsit (often used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall).
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The police as a profession, act of policing, or an individual police officer. UK, slang, uncountable
- A penis.
Equivalents
68 more languages
Afrikaanswerk
Bosanskicardeloeraflekjalemistopegaposaopostpoštenpuneslužbazanimanjezaposlenjeделозанимањепосаоработаслужба
Eestitöö
Suomiduunierähävitähommajobatajopikausityökeikkakeikkaillakutsumusammattileikkausnakkipestipilkkoatehtävätoimityö
ʻŌlelo HawaiʻiIoba
Hrvatskicardeloeraflekjalemistopegaposaopostpoštenpuneslužbazanimanjezaposlenjeделозанимањепосаоработаслужба
Igboọlụ
ភាសាខ្មែរការងារ
Lietuviųdarbas
Монголажил
Bahasa Melayupekerjaan
PolskiakcydensakcydensowydziełoHiobhiobowyJobKsięga Hiobapracarobotauczynekzabaważądaniezajęciezawód
Slovenščinadelo
Српскиcardeloeraflekjalemistopegaposaopostpoštenpuneslužbazanimanjezaposlenjeделозанимањепосаоработаслужба
தமிழ்வேலை
తెలుగుఉద్యోగము
Тоҷикӣкор
Türkmençeiş
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⟳.”
CEFR level
A1
Beginner
This word is part of the CEFR A1 vocabulary — beginner level.
This word is part of the CEFR A1 vocabulary — beginner level.
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