job

UK /dʒɒb/ US /dʒɑb/
verb 8noun 7name 3

Definitions

noun

1

A task.

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

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.

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

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

verb

1

To do odd jobs or occasional work for hire.

Authors of all work, to job for the season.

2

To work as a jobber.

3

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

4

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

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.

verb

1

To 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.

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