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    [Noun]  | "job" | \ ˈjäb \


    1: a regular remunerative position

    2: a specific duty, role, or function

    3: something that has to be done : task


    Origin: circa 1558 ;

     Perhaps from obsolete English job lump;

    [Noun]  | "Job" | \ ˈjōb \


    1: the hero of the book of Job who endures afflictions with fortitude and faith

    2: a narrative and poetic book of canonical Jewish and Christian Scripture


    Origin: before 12th century ;

     Latin, from Greek Iōb, from Hebrew Iyyōbh;

    [Noun]  | "job action" 


    1: a temporary action (such as a slowdown) by workers as a protest and means of forcing compliance with demands


    Origin: 1932 ;

    [Noun]  | "job-hop*ping" | \ ˈjäb-ˌhä-piŋ \


    1: the practice of moving from job to job


    Origin: 1945 ;

    [Noun]  | "job lot" 


    1: a miscellaneous collection of goods for sale as a lot usually to a retailer

    2: a miscellaneous and usually inferior collection or group


    Origin: 1828 ;

    [Noun]  | "Job's comforter" | \ ˈjōbz- \


    1: a person who discourages or depresses while seemingly giving comfort and consolation


    Origin: 1738 ;

     From the tone of the speeches made to Job by his friends;

    [Noun]  | "job fair" 


    1: an event where employers offer information about their companies to people who are looking for jobs

    [Verb]  | "job" 


    1: to do odd or occasional pieces of work for hire

    2: to carry on public business for private gain

    3: to carry on the business of a middleman or wholesaler


    Origin: 1681 ;

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    [Adjective]  | "job" 


    1: of or relating to a job or to employment

    2: used in, engaged in, or done as job work

    3: that is for hire for a given service or period


    Origin: 1748 ;

     See: ;

    [Plural noun]  | "Job's tears" 


    1: hard usually pearly white seeds of a tropical southeast Asian grass (Coix lacryma-jobi) often used as beads

    2: the grass producing Job's tears


    Origin: 1597 ;

    [Verb]  | "job" 


    1: as in contract, partner;




    [Noun]  | "job" 


    1: an assignment at which one regularly works for pay;


      * e.g., " ... a high-paying job as a banker "



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    2: a piece of work that needs to be done regularly;


      * e.g., " ... taking the trash out is one of my jobs "



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    3: a specific task with which a person or group is charged;


      * e.g., " ... your job on this committee is to review the curriculum and suggest changes "



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    [Noun]  | "job action" 


    1: as in slowdown, sit-in;


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    [Noun]  | "job actions" 


    1: as in slowdowns, sit-ins;


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    [Noun]  | "job lot" 


    1: as in hard goods, stuff;


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     [ "job" ]

    1: being paid to care for shit you do not actually care about

      * e.g.,  ... when are you gonna resign from your job? 

     [ "job" ]

    1: Means by which at least 30% of your life is stolen from you to enrich the owners of a company making useless shit that some other poor idiot in a job will buy.

     [ "job" ]

    1: Something that's impossible to find because everyone wants to only hire experienced people even though you can't get experience if no one will hire you, and they're too damned lazy to train you.

      * e.g.,  ... Finding a job is such a pain. 

     [ "job" ]

    1: A futile effort for financial independence, social acceptance and personal happiness.

      * e.g.,  ... My job allows me to pay endless bills, envy my friends and witness my family fall apart 

     [ "job" ]

    1: a thing that takes up much of our lives and sends a message to everyone that life sucks.

      * e.g.,  ... ) My job sucks. 

     [ "job" ]

    1: Just Over Broke

     [ "job" ]

    1: A means by which you have to do a series of repetitive, menial, and sometimes dangerous tasks just to earn an amount of money that is not even enough to pay for rent and bills. 15-30 percent of the money is "collected" by the government, depending on the state, corporation, and country where the work is done. Usually the work is accompanied by a self-centered, non-reasoning, short-term-profit oriented dogfucker called a boss who gets sadistical pleasure from yelling at and even firing the subordinates.

      * e.g.,  ... Most college students, however, end up finding jobs at pizza parlors, janitorial services, garbage-collections, burger/taco/deli restaurants, produce-picking at farms, and baggers/stockers at supermarkets. 


     [ "job" ]

    2: Although it is stated that college students get better paying jobs, that is usually by pure luck, regardless of the number of "connections"

     [ "job" ]

    1: A place that I bust my ass to get to, then all day I put up with a bunch of gossiping no-lives who have nothing better to do with their time, and then i come home feeling dirty, tired, and sorry that i don't have an endless supply of money that comes from a void in space.

      * e.g.,  ... "My job sucks the BIG one!" 

     [ "job" ]

    1: The act of volunteering to be abuse on a daily basis for barely enough money to pay your rent

      * e.g.,  ... Spending four years in college to earn a degree in order to Retrieve coffee for the boss while being told working 40 hours a week is not adequate job commitment so no raise for another year. 

     [ "job" ]

    1: something that can help and ruin your life. sometimes when you get it, you regret it. but other times you get it, and feel like you're the luckiest person in the world. it's mostly regret. expect regret, because you know you're going to get regret. choose it wisely.

      * e.g.,  ... my job sucks 

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