Noun | 1. | ![]() |
2. | job - a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee; "estimates of the city's loss on that job ranged as high as a million dollars"; "the job of repairing the engine took several hours"; "the endless task of classifying the samples"; "the farmer's morning chores" | |
3. | job - the performance of a piece of work; "she did an outstanding job as Ophelia"; "he gave it up as a bad job" | |
4. | job - the responsibility to do something; "it is their job to print the truth" | |
5. | job - a workplace; as in the expression "on the job"; | |
6. | 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" | |
7. | ![]() Synonyms: problem | |
8. | job - a damaging piece of work; "dry rot did the job of destroying the barn"; "the barber did a real job on my hair" | |
9. | job - a crime (especially a robbery); "the gang pulled off a bank job in St. Louis" Synonyms: caper | |
10. | Job - a Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him | |
11. | Job - any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing | |
12. | job - (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit | |
13. | Job - a book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply Synonyms: Book of Job | |
Verb | 1. | job - profit privately from public office and official business |
2. | job - arranged for contracted work to be done by others Synonyms: farm out, subcontract | |
3. | job - work occasionally; "As a student I jobbed during the semester breaks" | |
4. | job - 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" Synonyms: speculate |
JOB. By this term is understood among workmen, the whole of a thing which is to be done. In this sense it is employed in the Civil Code of Louisiana, art. 2727; "to build by plot, or to work by the job," says that article, "is to undertake a building for a certain stipulated price." See Durant. du Contr. de Louage, liv. 8, t. 8, n. 248, 263; Poth. Contr. de Louage, n. 392, 394 and Deviation.
(operating system) | job - All the activities involved in completing
any project on a computer from start to finish. A job may
involve several processes and several programs. This term is rather old fashioned and harks back to the days of batch processing where a user would submit his job as a deck of punched cards which would typically include source code interspersed with job control language instructions to guide the various phases of the job such as compilation, linking, execution and printing. |