EGAVE

job

Academic Word List, sublist 4.

About 97.50 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. symbol ISO 639-3 language code for Joba.
  2. noun A task.
    I've got a job for you: could you wash the dishes?
  3. noun An economic role for which a person is paid.
    That surgeon has a great job.
  4. noun Plastic surgery.
    He had a nose job.
  5. noun A sex act.
    hand job
  6. noun A task, or series of tasks, carried out in batch mode (especially on a mainframe computer).
  7. noun A public transaction done for private profit; something performed ostensibly as a part of official duty, but really for private gain; a corrupt official business.
  8. noun A robbery or heist.
    a bank job

Similar words

task work chore employment subcontract farm out speculate problem caper employed

Often followed by

of and in is to as was for at

Word family

Job jobbed jobbing jobs

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