1.  job(n = noun.act) business, line, line of work, occupation - the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money; "he's not in my line of business"
is a kind of activity
has particulars: confectionery, sport, farming, land, biz, game, calling, career, vocation, employment, work, appointment, berth, billet, office, place, position, post, situation, spot, salt mine, treadmill, craft, trade, profession, medium, metier, accountancy, accounting, photography, catering

2.  job(n = noun.act) chore, task - a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee; "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"
is a kind of duty
has particulars: ball-breaker, ball-buster, stint, scut work, shitwork
Derived forms verb job₃, verb job₂

3.  job(n = noun.artifact) - a workplace; as in the expression; "on the job"
is a kind of work, workplace
Derived forms verb job₃, verb job₂

4.  job(n = noun.artifact) - an object worked on; a result produced by working; "he held the job in his left hand and worked on it with his right"
is a kind of product, production
Derived forms verb job₃, verb job₂

5.  job(n = noun.act) - the responsibility to do something; "it is their job to print the truth"
is a kind of duty, obligation, responsibility

6.  job(n = noun.act) - the performance of a piece of work; "she did an outstanding job as Ophelia"; "he gave it up as a bad job"
is a kind of work
Derived forms verb job₃, verb job₂

7.  job(n = noun.act) - a damaging piece of work; "dry rot did the job of destroying the barn"; "the barber did a real job on my hair"
is a kind of work

8.  job(n = noun.state) problem - a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved; "she and her husband are having problems"; "it is always a job to contact him"; "urban problems such as traffic congestion and smog"
is a kind of difficulty
has particulars: race problem, balance-of-payments problem

9.  job(n = noun.person) - a Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him;
is a kind of hero

10.  job(n = noun.person) - any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing;
is a kind of unfortunate, unfortunate person

11.  job(n = noun.communication) - (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit;
is a kind of application, application program, applications programme

12.  job(n = noun.communication) book of job - a book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply;
is a kind of book
is a part of old testament, hagiographa, ketubim, writings

13.  job(n = noun.act) caper - a crime (especially a robbery); "the gang pulled off a bank job in St. Louis"
is a kind of robbery

1.  job(v = verb.social) - profit privately from public office and official business;
is one way to cheat, chisel
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s

2.  job(v = verb.social) farm out, subcontract - arranged for contracted work to be done by others;
is one way to employ, engage, hire
Derived forms noun job₆, noun job₂, noun job₃, noun job₄
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s something to somebody

3.  job(v = verb.social) - work occasionally; "As a student I jobbed during the semester breaks"
is one way to do work, work
Derived forms noun job₆, noun job₂, noun job₃, noun job₄
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s PP

4.  job(v = verb.possession) speculate - invest at a risk; "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"
is one way to commit, invest, place, put
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s PP

1.  A sudden thrust or stab; a jab. [1913 Webster]

2.  A piece of chance or occasional work; any definite work undertaken in gross for a fixed price; as, he did the job for a thousand dollars. [1913 Webster]

3.  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. [1913 Webster]

4.  Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately. [1913 Webster]

5.  A situation or opportunity of work; as, he lost his job. [1913 Webster]

6.  A task, or the execution of a task; as, Michelangelo did a great job on the David statue. [PJC]

7.  A task or coordinated set of tasks for a multitasking computer, submitted for processing as a single unit, usually for execution in background. See job control language. [PJC]
" Job is used adjectively to signify doing jobs, used for jobs, or let on hire to do jobs; as, job printer; job master; job horse; job wagon, etc." [1913 Webster]

1.  To strike or stab with a pointed instrument. L'Estrange. [1913 Webster]

2.  To thrust in, as a pointed instrument. Moxon. [1913 Webster]

3.  To do or cause to be done by separate portions or lots; to sublet (work); as, to job a contract. [1913 Webster]

4.  To buy and sell, as a broker; to purchase of importers or manufacturers for the purpose of selling to retailers; as, to job goods. [1913 Webster]

5.  To hire or let by the job or for a period of service; as, to job a carriage. Thackeray. [1913 Webster]

1.  To do chance work for hire; to work by the piece; to do petty work. [1913 Webster]
"Authors of all work, to job for the season." [1913 Webster]

2.  To seek private gain under pretense of public service; to turn public matters to private advantage. [1913 Webster]
"And judges job, and bishops bite the town." [1913 Webster]

3.  To carry on the business of a jobber in merchandise or stocks. [1913 Webster]

   The hero of the book of that name in the Old Testament; the prototypical patient man. [1913 Webster]

job, n. & v.
--n.
1 a piece of work, esp. one done for hire or profit.
2 a paid position of employment.
3 colloq. anything one has to do.
4 colloq. a difficult task (had a job to find them).
5 a product of work, esp. if well done.
6 Computing an item of work regarded separately.
7 sl. a crime, esp. a robbery.
8 a transaction in which private advantage prevails over duty or public interest.
9 a state of affairs or set of circumstances (is a bad job).
--v. (jobbed, jobbing)
1 intr. do jobs; do piece-work.
2 a intr. deal in stocks. b tr. buy and sell (stocks or goods) as a middleman.
3 a intr. turn a position of trust to private advantage. b tr. deal corruptly with (a matter).
4 tr. US sl. swindle.

Idiom:
job-control language Computing a language enabling the user to determine the tasks to be undertaken by the operating system. job-hunt colloq. seek employment. job lot a miscellaneous group of articles, esp. bought together. jobs for the boys colloq. profitable situations etc. to reward one's supporters. job-sharing an arrangement by which a full-time job is done jointly by several part-time employees who share the remuneration. just the job colloq. exactly what is wanted. make a job (or good job) of do thoroughly or successfully. on the job colloq.
1 at work; in the course of doing a piece of work.
2 engaged in sexual intercourse. out of a job unemployed.

job, v. & n.
--v. (jobbed, jobbing)
1 tr. prod; stab slightly.
2 intr. (foll. by at) thrust.
--n. a prod or thrust; a jerk at a horse's bit.

Etymology:
ME, app. imit.: cf. JAB

N  business, occupation, employment, pursuit, what one is doing, what one is about, affair, concern, matter, case, matter in hand, irons in the fire, thing to do, agendum, task, work, job, chore, errand, commission, mission, charge, care, duty, part, role, cue, province, function, lookout, department, capacity, sphere, orb, field, line, walk, walk of life, beat, round, routine, race, career, office, place, post, chargeship, incumbency, living, situation, berth, employ, service, engagement, undertaking, vocation, calling, profession, cloth, faculty, industry, art, industrial arts, craft, mystery, handicraft, trade, exercise, work, avocation, press of business, businesslike, workaday, professional, official, functional, busy, on hand, in hand, in one's hands, afoot, on foot, on the anvil, going on, acting, in the course of business, all in one's day's work, professionally Adj, a business with an income at its heels, amoto quaeramus seria ludo, par negotiis neque supra.

N  action, performance, doing perpetration, exercise, excitation, movement, operation, evolution, work, labor, praxis, execution, procedure, handicraft, business, agency, deed, act, overt act, stitch, touch, gest transaction, job, doings, dealings, proceeding, measure, step, maneuver, bout, passage, move, stroke, blow, coup, coup de main, coup d'etat, tour de force, feat, exploit, achievement, handiwork, workmanship, manufacture, stroke of policy, actor, doing, acting, in action, in harness, on duty, in operation, in the act, in the midst of, in the thick of, red-handed, in flagrante delicto, while one's hand is in, action is eloquence, actions speak louder than words, actum aiunt ne agas, awake, arise, or be forever fall'n, dii pia facta vident, faire sans dire, fare fac, fronte capillata post est occasio calva, our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts, the great end of life is not knowledge but action, thought is the soul of act, vivre-ce nest pas respirer c'est agir, we live in deeds not years.

N  improbity, dishonesty, dishonor, deviation from rectitude, disgrace, fraud, lying, bad faith, Punic faith, mala fides, Punica fides, infidelity, faithlessness, Judas kiss, betrayal, breach of promise, breach of trust, breach of faith, prodition, disloyalty, treason, high treason, apostasy, nonobservance, shabbiness, villainy, villany, baseness, abjection, debasement, turpitude, moral turpitude, laxity, trimming, shuffling, perfidy, perfidiousness, treachery, double dealing, unfairness, knavery, roguery, rascality, foul play, jobbing, jobbery, graft, bribery, venality, nepotism, corruption, job, shuffle, fishy transaction, barratry, sharp practice, heads I win tails you lose, mouth honor, dishonest, dishonorable, unconscientious, unscrupulous, fraudulent, knavish, disgraceful, wicked, false-hearted, disingenuous, unfair, one-sided, double, double- hearted, double-tongued, double-faced, timeserving, crooked, tortuous, insidious, Machiavelian, dark, slippery, fishy, perfidious, treacherous, perjured, infamous, arrant, foul, base, vile, ignominious, blackguard, contemptible, unrespectable, abject, mean, shabby, little, paltry, dirty, scurvy, scabby, sneaking, groveling, scrubby, rascally, pettifogging, beneath one, low-minded, low-thoughted, base-minded, undignified, indign, unbecoming, unbeseeming, unbefitting, derogatory, degrading, infra dignitatem, beneath one's dignity, ungentlemanly, ungentlemanlike, unknightly, unchivalric, unmanly, unhandsome, recreant, inglorious, corrupt, venal, debased, mongrel, faithless, of bad faith, false, unfaithful, disloyal, untrustworthy, trustless, trothless, lost to shame, dead to honor, barratrous, dishonestly, mala fide, like a thief in the night, by crooked paths, Int, O tempora!, O mores!, corruptissima respublica plurimae leges.

bad job, blow job, book of job, coaching job, do a job on, federal job safety law, hand job, hard job, hatchet job, inside job, job action, job application, job candidate, job control, job control language, job description, job interview, job lot, nose job, odd job, on the job, put up job, snow job

   tears(n = noun.act) crying, weeping - the process of shedding tears (usually accompanied by sobs or other inarticulate sounds); "I hate to hear the crying of a child"; "she was in tears"
is a kind of activity, bodily function, bodily process, body process
has particulars: snivel, sniveling, sob, sobbing, bawling, wailing

baby tears, baby's tears, crocodile tears, job's tears