job
1. the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money (Freq. 76)
- he's not in my line of business
• Syn:
occupation, business, line of work, line
• Derivationally related forms:
occupy (for: occupation)
• Hypernyms:
activity
• Hyponyms:
confectionery, sport, farming, land, game,
biz, career, calling, vocation, employment, work,
appointment, position, post, berth, office, spot,
billet, place, situation, treadmill, salt mine, trade,
craft, profession, metier, medium, accountancy, accounting,
photography, catering
2. a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee (Freq. 36)
- 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
• Syn:
task, chore
• Derivationally related forms:
task (for: task)
• Hypernyms:
duty
• Hyponyms:
ball-buster, ball-breaker, stint, scut work, shitwork
3. a workplace;
as in the expression "on the job" (Freq. 4)
• Hypernyms:
workplace, work
4. an object worked on;
a result produced by working (Freq. 2)
- he held the job in his left hand and worked on it with his right
• Hypernyms:
product, production
5. the responsibility to do something (Freq. 2)
- it is their job to print the truth
• Hypernyms:
duty, responsibility, obligation
6. the performance of a piece of work (Freq. 2)
- she did an outstanding job as Ophelia
- he gave it up as a bad job
• Hypernyms:
work
7. a damaging piece of work (Freq. 1)
- dry rot did the job of destroying the barn
- the barber did a real job on my hair
• Hypernyms:
work
8. 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
• Syn:
problem
• Derivationally related forms:
problematical (for: problem), problematic (for: problem)
• Hypernyms:
difficulty
• Hyponyms:
race problem, balance-of-payments problem
9. (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit
• Topics:
computer science, computing
• Hypernyms:
application, application program, applications programme
10. a crime (especially a robbery)
- the gang pulled off a bank job in St. Louis
• Syn:
caper
• Hypernyms:
robbery
1. profit privately from public office and official business
• Hypernyms:
cheat, chisel
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
2. arranged for contracted work to be done by others
• Syn:
subcontract, farm out
• Derivationally related forms:
subcontract (for: subcontract), subcontractor (for: subcontract)
• Hypernyms:
hire, engage, employ
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s something to somebody
3. work occasionally
- As a student I jobbed during the semester breaks
• Hypernyms:
work, do work
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s PP
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
• Syn:
speculate
• Derivationally related forms:
speculative (for: speculate), speculation (for: speculate), speculator (for: speculate)
• Hypernyms:
invest, put, commit, place
• Hyponyms:
bull
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s PP
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