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(noun) a damaging piece of work: "dry rot did the job of destroying the barn"; "the barber did a real job on my hair" |
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Related Words: work |
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(noun) the performance of a piece of work; "she did an outstanding job as Ophelia"; "he gave it up as a bad job" |
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Related Words: functioning, operation, performance |
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(noun) the occupation for which you are paid; "he is looking for a job"; "a lot of people are out of work" |
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Synonyms: employment, work |
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Related Words: appointment, berth, booking, business, coaching, coaching job, engagement, line, line of work, navigation, occupation, office, piecework, place, position, post, public service, sailing, salt mine, seafaring, service, services, situation, slot, spot, treadmill, workload |
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(noun) the responsibility to do something; "it is their job to print the truth" |
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Related Words: duty, obligation, responsibility |
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(noun) 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" |
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Synonyms: chore, task |
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Related Words: disagreeable task, duty, school assignment, stint |
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(verb) work occasionally |
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Related Words: do work, work |
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(verb) profit privately from public office |
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Related Words: cheat |
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(noun) a workplace; as in the expression "on the job" |
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Related Words: work, workplace |
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(noun) an object worked on; a result produced by working; "he held the job in his left hand and worked on it with his right" |
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Related Words: product, production |
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(noun) a book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply |
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Related Words: book |
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(noun) (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit |
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Related Words: application, application program, applications programme |
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(noun) any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing |
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Related Words: unfortunate, unfortunate person |
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(noun) a Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him |
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Related Words: Hebrew, Jew |
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(noun) a crime (especially a robbery); "the gang pulled off a bank job in St. Louis" |
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Synonyms: caper |
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Related Words: robbery |
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(verb) invest at a risk |
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Synonyms: speculate |
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Related Words: bull, commit, invest, place, put |
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(noun) 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" |
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Synonyms: problem |
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Related Words: balance-of-payments problem, difficulty, race problem |
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(verb) let out under a subcontract |
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Synonyms: farm out, subcontract |
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Related Words: employ, engage, hire |
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