Collins English-English Dictionary

job [ʤɑb]

1. 1. n an individual piece of work or task

2. 2. n an occupation; post of employment

3. 3. n an object worked on or a result produced from working

4. 4. n a duty or responsibility

   her job was to cook the dinner

5. 5. n [informal] a difficult task or problem

   I had a job to contact him

6. 6. n a state of affairs

   make the best of a bad job

   it's a good job I saw you

7. 7. n [informal] a damaging piece of work

   he really did a job on that

8. 8. n [informal] a crime, esp a robbery or burglary

9. 9. n [informal] an article or specimen

   the new car was a nice little job

10. 10. n an instance of jobbery

11. 11. n [computing] a unit of work for a computer consisting of a single complete task submitted by a user

12. 12. vi. [intr] to work by the piece or at casual jobs

13. 13. vi. to make a private profit out of (a public office, etc)

14. 14. vi. [intr; usually foll by in] to buy and sell (goods or services) as a middleman

    he jobs in government surplus

15. 15. vi. [Brit] to buy and sell stocks and shares as a stockjobber

    he jobs in blue chips

16. 16. vt. [tr; often foll by out] to apportion (a contract, work, etc) among several contractors, workers, etc

17. 17. vt. [Etymology] C16: of uncertain origin