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
1. job A business is what one follows regularly; an occupation is what he happens at any time to be engaged in; trout-fishing may be one's occupation for a time, as a relief from business; business Synonyms: business, affair, commerce, handicraft, trading, art, concern, job, traffic, avocation, craft, occupation, transaction, barter, duty, profession, vocation, calling, employment, trade, work