job

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Noun
1. the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money; "he's not in my line of business"
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2. 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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3. 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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4. the responsibility to do something; "it is their job to print the truth"
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5. a workplace; as in the expression "on the job";
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6. 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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7. 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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8. 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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9. a crime (especially a robbery); "the gang pulled off a bank job in St. Louis"
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10. (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit
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Verb
1. profit privately from public office and official business
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2. arranged for contracted work to be done by others
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3. work occasionally; "As a student I jobbed during the semester breaks"
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4. invest at a risk; "I bought this house not because I want to live in it but to sell it later at a good price, so I am speculating"
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