job
//dʒɒb//
Forms
- Plural
- jobs
- present (v1)
- job
- past (v2)
- jobbed
- past participle (v3)
- jobbed
- present participle
- jobbing
- 3rd person singular
- jobs
Definitions
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.An economic role for which a person is paid.
- He's been out of a job since being made redundant in January.
- Here I am at my new job!
- That surgeon has a great job.
3.Plastic surgery.
- He had a nose job.
4.A sex act.
- Tom is looking for a job.
- How is your job search going?
- I'm content with my job.
1.To work as a jobber.
2.To take the loss, usually in a demeaning or submissive manner.(slang)
3.To buy and sell for profit, as securities; to speculate in.
4.To do odd jobs or occasional work for hire.
- Authors of all work, to job for the season.
Frequency
Overall
Very common· #226
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Common
- General reading & writing
- Very common
- Academic
- Uncommon
- Literature
- Uncommon
Related words
Synonyms
Etymology
From the phrase jobbe of work (“piece of work”), of uncertain origin.
Perhaps from a variant of Middle English gobbe (“mass, lump”); or perhaps related to Middle English jobben (“to jab, thrust, peck”), or Middle English choppe (“piece, bargain”).
More at gob, jab, chop.