job

Meaning

1. A task.
2. An economic role for which a person is paid.
3. Plastic surgery.
4. A sex act.
5. A task, or series of tasks, carried out in batch mode (especially on a mainframe computer).
6. 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.
7. (informal) A robbery or heist.
8. Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately.
9. (colloquial) A thing or whatsit (often used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall).
10. (slang) The police as a profession, act of policing, or an individual police officer.

work

task

line of work

speculate

get a job

official duty

assigned job

place of employment

public square

to get a job

Job Title

work matter

transfer of training

tool bit

exercitation

crockery set

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/d͡ʒɒb/

From the phrase jobbe of work (“piece of work”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from a variant of Middle English gobbe (“mass, lump”); or perhaps related to Middle English jobben (“to jab, thrust, peck”), or Middle English choppe (“piece, bargain”). More at gob, jab, chop.

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