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Noun job has 13 senses

occupation, business, job, line of work, line - the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money; "he's not in my line of business"
--₁ is a kind of activity
--₁ has particulars:

sport; farming, land; game, biz; career, calling, vocation; employment, work; appointment; position, post, berth, office, spot, billet, place, situation; treadmill, salt mine; trade, craft; profession; metier, medium; accountancy, accounting; photography; catering

job, task, chore - 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"
--₂ is a kind of duty
--₂ has particulars:
ball-buster, ball-breaker; disagreeable task, disagreeable chore; stint

Derived forms: verb job₃, verb job₂
job - the performance of a piece of work; "she did an outstanding job as Ophelia"; "he gave it up as a bad job"
--₃ is a kind of work

Derived forms: verb job₃, verb job₂
job - the responsibility to do something; "it is their job to print the truth"
--₄ is a kind of duty, responsibility, obligation
job - a workplace; as in the expression "on the job";
--₅ is a kind of workplace, work

Derived forms: verb job₃, verb job₂
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"
--₆ is a kind of product, production

Derived forms: verb job₃, verb job₂
problem, job - 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"
--₇ is a kind of difficulty
--₇ has particulars: race problem; balance-of-payments problem
job - a damaging piece of work; "dry rot did the job of destroying the barn"; "the barber did a real job on my hair"
--₈ is a kind of work
caper, job - a crime (especially a robbery); "the gang pulled off a bank job in St. Louis"
--₉ is a kind of robbery
Job - a Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him
--₁₀ is a kind of hero
Job - any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing
--₁₁ is a kind of unfortunate, unfortunate person
job - (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit
--₁₂ is a kind of application, application program, applications programme
Job, Book of Job - a book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply
--₁₃ is a kind of book
--₁₃ is a part of Hagiographa, Ketubim, Writings; Old Testament

Verb job has 4 senses

job - profit privately from public office and official business
--₁ is one way to cheat, chisel
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s
subcontract, farm out, job - arranged for contracted work to be done by others
--₂ is one way to hire, engage, employ

Derived forms: noun job₆, noun job₅, noun job₃, noun job₂
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody
job - work occasionally; "As a student I jobbed during the semester breaks"
--₃ is one way to work, do work

Derived forms: noun job₆, noun job₅, noun job₃, noun job₂
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s PP
speculate, 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"
--₄ is one way to invest, put, commit, place
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP