Jobname/d͡ʒəʊb/

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  biblicallifestylereligionA book of the Old Testament and the Hebrew Tanakh.

• 2

  A male given name from Hebrew.

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  IslambiblicallifestyleA character in the Old Testament and the Qur'an, renowned for his patience.

Jobnoun/d͡ʒəʊb/

• 1

  A person who shows remarkable patience, especially in the face of great misfortune.

jobnoun詞源 1/dʒɒb/

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  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.
• 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.
• 3

  Plastic surgery.

  • He had a nose job.
• 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

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

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  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.

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  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

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

jobverb詞源 1/dʒɒb/

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  To do odd jobs or occasional work for hire.

  • Authors of all work, to job for the season.
• 2

  To work as a jobber.

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

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

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  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.
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  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

  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...

jobverb詞源 2/dʒɒb/

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  archaicregionalTo 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

  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

  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.

jobnoun詞源 2/dʒɒb/

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  obsoleteA sudden thrust or stab; a jab or punch.

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