1. (noun) occupation, business, job, line of work, line
the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
Synonyms: personal credit line, occupancy, cable, business, billet, stemma, commercial enterprise, business concern, ancestry, byplay, agate line, business organisation, stage business, lineage, crinkle, stock, task, telephone circuit, clientele, seam, bloodline, course, crease, melodic line, air, channel, short letter, line of products, job, assembly line, contrast, problem, patronage, product line, business sector, military control, blood, bank line, tune, line of merchandise, personal line of credit, concern, melody, strain, dividing line, transmission line, moving in, caper, line of descent, chore, argumentation, logical argument, phone line, furrow, rail line, parentage, wrinkle, descent, blood line, melodic phrase, occupation, line of business, pedigree, pipeline, line of credit, line, business line, railway line, demarcation, subscriber line, origin, business organization, communication channel, telephone line, credit line, production line, business enterprise, line of reasoning, line of work, note, argument
2. (noun) job, task, chore
a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee
Synonyms: occupation, job, line, chore, line of work, business, task, problem, caper, project, undertaking, labor
3. (noun) job
a workplace; as in the expression "on the job";
Synonyms: occupation, line, chore, line of work, business, task, problem, caper
4. (noun) job
an object worked on; a result produced by working
Synonyms: occupation, line, chore, line of work, business, task, problem, caper
5. (noun) job
the responsibility to do something
Synonyms: occupation, line, chore, line of work, business, task, problem, caper
6. (noun) job
the performance of a piece of work
Synonyms: occupation, line, chore, line of work, business, task, problem, caper
7. (noun) job
a damaging piece of work
Synonyms: occupation, line, chore, line of work, business, task, problem, caper
8. (noun) problem, job
a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved
Synonyms: occupation, job, line, trouble, chore, line of work, business, task, problem, caper
9. (noun) Job
a Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him
Synonyms: occupation, line, chore, line of work, business, task, problem, caper
10. (noun) Job
any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing
Synonyms: occupation, line, chore, line of work, business, task, problem, caper
11. (noun) job
(computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit
Synonyms: occupation, line, chore, line of work, business, task, problem, caper
12. (noun) Job, Book of Job
a book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply
Synonyms: occupation, line, chore, line of work, business, task, problem, caper
13. (verb) caper, job
a crime (especially a robbery)
Synonyms: task, joke, trick, play, caper, line of work, problem, put-on, frolic, antic, line, romp, prank, capriole, occupation, business, gambol, chore, job
14. (verb) job
profit privately from public office and official business
Synonyms: subcontract, speculate, farm out
15. (verb) subcontract, farm out, job
arranged for contracted work to be done by others
Synonyms: subcontract, rent out, speculate, hire out, farm out, job
16. (verb) job
work occasionally
Synonyms: subcontract, speculate, farm out
17. (verb) speculate, job
invest at a risk
Synonyms: hypothecate, speculate, contemplate, theorise, conjecture, reflect, chew over, excogitate, suppose, hypothesise, mull over, farm out, think over, ponder, theorize, muse, ruminate, hypothesize, meditate, mull, subcontract, job
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