job
Pronunciation:
/d͡ʒɒb//d͡ʒɑb/noun
Definitions
A task.
Example: A job half done is hardly done at all.
An economic role for which a person is paid.
Example: He's been out of a job since being made redundant in January.
(in noun compounds) Plastic surgery.
Example: He had had a nose job.
A task, or series of tasks, carried out in batch mode (especially on a mainframe computer).
verb
Definitions
To do odd jobs or occasional work for hire.
To work as a jobber.
To take the loss.
To buy and sell for profit, as securities; to speculate in.