Definition of "Job" :

noun: a damaging piece of work

"Dry rot did the job of destroying the barn."

noun: the performance of a piece of work

"She did an outstanding job as Ophelia."

noun: the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money

noun: the responsibility to do something

"It is their job to print the truth."

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."

noun: a crime (especially a robbery)

"The gang pulled off a bank job in St. Louis."

noun: a workplace; as in the expression on the job'

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."

noun: a book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply

noun: (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit

noun: any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing

noun: a Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him

noun: a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved

"It is always a job to contact him."

verb: invest at a risk

verb: work occasionally

"As a student I jobbed during the semester breaks."

verb: arranged for contracted work to be done by others

verb: profit privately from public office and official business