job

(ice hockey) a play in which one team has a numerical advantage over the other as a result of penalties

• “the team was unable to capitalize on the power play”

a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee

• “estimates of the city”
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• “;”
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• “s morning chores”

the performance of a piece of work

• “she did an outstanding job as Ophelia”
• “he gave it up as a bad job”

the responsibility to do something

• “it is their job to print the truth”

a workplace; as in the expression "on the job";

an object worked on; a result produced by working

• “he held the job in his left hand and worked on it with his right”

a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved

• “she and her husband are having problems”
• “it is always a job to contact him”
• “urban problems such as traffic congestion and smog”

a damaging piece of work

• “dry rot did the job of destroying the barn”
• “the barber did a real job on my hair”

a crime (especially a robbery)

• “the gang pulled off a bank job in St. Louis”

a Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him

any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing

(computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit

a book in the Old Testament containing Job''s pleas to God about his afflictions and God''s reply

profit privately from public office and official business

arranged for contracted work to be done by others

decide on one's actions as one goes along, depending on the situation

• “She didn”

invest at a risk

• “I bought this house not because I want to live in it but to sell it later at a good price, so I am speculating”