| Job | |
| 1. n. A person who shows remarkable patience. | |
| 2. n. A task. | |
| I've got a job for you - could you wash the dishes? | |
| A job half done is hardly done at all. | |
| 3. n. An economic role for which a person is paid. | |
| That surgeon has a great job. | |
| He's been out of a job since being made redundant in January. | |
| 4. n. (in noun compounds) Plastic surgery. | |
| He had had a nose job. | |
| 5. n. (computing) A task, or series of tasks, carried out in batch mode (especially on a mainframe computer). | |
| 6. n. 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. n. Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately. | |
| 8. n. A thing (often used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall). | |
| 9. v. (intransitive) To do odd jobs or occasional work for hire. | |
| 10. v. (intransitive) To work as a jobber. | |
| 11. v. (intransitive, professional wrestling slang) To take the loss. | |
| 12. v. (transitive, trading) To buy and sell for profit, as securities; to speculate in. | |
| 13. v. (transitive, often, with out) To subcontract a project or delivery in small portions to a number of contractors. | |
| We wanted to sell a turnkey plant, but they jobbed out the contract to small firms. | |
| 14. v. (intransitive) To seek private gain under pretence of public service; to turn public matters to private advantage. | |
| 15. v. To strike or stab with a pointed instrument. | |
| 16. v. To thrust in, as a pointed instrument. | |
| 17. v. To hire or let in periods of service. | |
| to job a carriage | |
