job

接job [Cantonese] ― zip³ zop¹ [Jyutping] ― to take a job

(Hong Kong Cantonese) job (a non-permanent job, from which one is paid); tasks in one's work (Classifier: 單／单 c; 個／个 c)


job

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job n (singular definite jobbet, plural indefinite job)

jobbet (definite singular)
job (indefinite plural)
job (indefinite nominative singular)
jobbet (definite nominative singular)
job (indefinite nominative plural)
jobbene (definite nominative plural)
jobs (genitive indefinite singular)
jobbets (definite genitive singular)
jobs (genitive indefinite plural)
jobbenes (definite genitive plural)


job

I've got a job for you - could you wash the dishes?

And it's my job to take care of the skanks on the road that you bang.

That surgeon has a great job.

He's been out of a job since being made redundant in January.

I was looking for a job and then I found a job / And heaven knows I'm miserable now

1984, Johnny Marr & Morrissey, “Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now”, in Hatful of Hollow, performed by The Smiths:

Policing the relationship between government and business in a free society is difficult. Businesspeople have every right to lobby governments, and civil servants to take jobs in the private sector.

2013 August 10, Schumpeter, “Cronies and capitols”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:

Here I am at my new job!
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2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)

An economic role for which a person is paid.

He had a nose job.

hand job

You men have no idea what we're dealing with down there. Teeth placement, and jaw stress, and suction, and gag reflex, and all the while bobbing up and down, moaning and trying to breathe through our noses. Easy? Honey, they don't call it a job for nothing.

2000 August 6, “Easy Come, Easy Go”, in Sex and the City, season 3, episode 9, spoken by Samantha:

(computing) A task, or series of tasks, carried out in batch mode (especially on a mainframe computer).

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.

a bank job

This freak Vernon got the intelligence on the safe job and passed it on to some other freak, a guy that hears voices in his head and talks back to them. […] We don't think [Vernon's squeeze] is in on the heist, but she apparently is in love with this creep who is laying the pipe in her trough!

2010, J. Lamar, Honor, Deception and Justice, page 53:

Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately.

Pass me that little job with the screw thread on it.

One of them was about nine years ago when I stood in white tie and tails beside a little blonde job (laughter and applause) down in front of the First Methodist Church of Birmingham, […]

1936, Proceedings of the annual meeting of the American Warehousemen's Association, volume 45, page 376:

(colloquial) A thing or whatsit (often used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall).

“He was ex-job, Beavis. Detective sergeant out of County, Banbury, retired in ‘59.”

2018 February 11, Colin Dexter, Russell Lewis, 14:17 from the start, in Endeavour(Cartouche), season 5, episode 2 (TV series), spoken by DS Endeavour Morse (Shaun Evans):

But there it was on the screen: The personal details of his old colleague from Kennington station in the late nineties.[…]She’s job. We used to work together.

2018 July 24, Chris Merritt, Last Witness:A Gripping Crime Thriller You Won’t Be Able To Put Down:

“I’m job, D.S Townsend. I have to report a missing person.”

2022 February 9, Daragh Carville, Richard Clark, Furquan Akhtar, 01:33 from the start, in The Bay, season 3, episode 5, spoken by D.S Jenn Townsend (Marsha Thomason):

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(UK, slang, law enforcement) The police as a profession, act of policing, or an individual police officer.

→ Antillean Creole: djòb

→ French: job

→ Louisiana Creole: djòb

зада́ча

computing: task(s) carried out in batch mode

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.


job

Authors of all work, to job for the season.

a. 1852, Thomas Moore, Literary Advertisement:

(intransitive) To do odd jobs or occasional work for hire.

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professional wrestling

(intransitive, professional wrestling slang) To take the loss, usually in a demeaning or submissive manner.

(transitive, trading) To buy and sell for profit, as securities; to speculate in.

We wanted to sell a turnkey plant, but they jobbed out the contract to small firms.

(transitive, often with out) To subcontract a project or delivery in small portions to a number of contractors.

And judges job, and bishops bite the town.

1733, Alexander Pope, Epistle to Bathurst:

(intransitive) To seek private gain under pretence of public service; to turn public matters to private advantage.

to job a carriage

[…] ...and a pair of handsome horses were jobbed, with which Jos drove about in state in the park...

1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:

en-verb

job (third-person singular simple present jobs, present participle jobbing, simple past and past participle jobbed)

jobs (present singular third-person)
jobbing (participle present)
jobbed (participle past)
jobbed (past)


job

a raven pitch'd upon him, and there sate, jobbing of the sore

1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC:

(intransitive, now rare, regional) To peck (of a bird); (more generally) to poke or prod (at, into).

He had ‘jobbed out’ the eye of one gentleman.

1844, Charles Dickens, chapter 33, in Martin Chuzzlewit:

(transitive) To pierce or poke (someone or something), typically with a sharp or pointed object; to stab.

A stranger jobbed me in the mug so hard that I fell off my chair.

2001, Richard Flanagan, Gould's Book of Fish, Vintage, published 2016, page 40:

(transitive, now Australia) To hit (someone) with a quick, sharp punch; to jab.


job

Fair dinkum, a man ought to give you a job in the b— face.

1937 October 14, The Western Mail, Perth:

(obsolete) A sudden thrust or stab; a jab or punch.


job

Arranjei um job numa empresa alemã.

I got myself a gig working for a German company.

(Brazil, colloquial) a gig (a job, especially freelance or temporary)

Ela é do job.

She's a hooker. (literally, “She’s of the job.”)

Hoje em dia é difícil encontrar
Uma menina que não trabalha no job

2024, “Menina do Job X Viciada em Sentar”, performed by Dj Junior Sales:

Nowadays it's hard to find
A girl who is not a slut

(Brazil, computing) a job (task carried out in batch mode)


job

joburi (plural)
job (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
jobul (accusative definite nominative singular)
joburi (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
joburile (accusative definite nominative plural)
job (indefinite singular)
jobului (definite singular)
joburi (indefinite singular)
joburilor (definite plural)
jobule (singular vocative)
joburilor (vocative)