job
/d͡ʒɒb/ · job
noun
- A task or piece of work A job half done is hardly done at all.
- An economic role for which a person is paid He's been out of a job since being made redundant in January.
- Plastic surgery He had had a nose job.
verb
- To do odd jobs or occasional work for hire She's been jobbing as a freelance writer.
- To work as a jobber He's been jobbing in the construction industry for years.
- To take the loss The company will have to job the loss in their quarterly report.
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Did you know? The term 'job' has become so ubiquitous that it's often used as a verb, as in 'to job' something, meaning to do it as a temporary or occasional task.