job

noun

1. 1

   A task.

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

   I didn't speak to many coworkers for the first year on the job.

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

2. 2

   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.

   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.

3. 3

   Plastic surgery.

   He had a nose job.

4. 4

   A sex act.

   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.

5. 5

   A task, or series of tasks, carried out in batch mode (especially on a mainframe computer).

6. 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. 7

   informalA robbery or heist.

   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!

8. 8

   Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately.

9. 9

   A thing or whatsit (often used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall).

   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, […]

10. 10

    slangThe police as a profession, act of policing, or an individual police officer.

    “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, DS Townsend. I have to report a missing person.”

11. 11

    slangSynonym of penis.

verb

1. 1

   To do odd jobs or occasional work for hire.

   Authors of all work, to job for the season.

2. 2

   To work as a jobber.

3. 3

   slangTo take the loss, usually in a demeaning or submissive manner.

4. 4

   To buy and sell for profit, as securities; to speculate in.

5. 5

   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.

6. 6

   To seek private gain under pretence of public service; to turn public matters to private advantage.

   And judges job, and bishops bite the town.

7. 7

   To hire or let in periods of service.

   to job a carriage

   […] ...and a pair of handsome horses were jobbed, with which Jos drove about in state in the park...

verb

1. 1

   archaicTo peck (of a bird); (more generally) to poke or prod (at, into).

   a raven pitch'd upon him, and there sate, jobbing of the sore

2. 2

   To pierce or poke (someone or something), typically with a sharp or pointed object; to stab.

   He had ‘jobbed out’ the eye of one gentleman.

3. 3

   To hit (someone) with a quick, sharp punch; to jab.

   A stranger jobbed me in the mug so hard that I fell off my chair.

noun

1. 1

   obsoleteA sudden thrust or stab; a jab or punch.

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

Forms

plural

jobs

past tense

jobbed

past participle

jobbed

present participle

jobbing

third person singular

jobs