| NOUN | act | job, occupation, business, line of work, line | the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money |
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| act | job, task, chore | a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee | |
| artifact | job | a workplace | |
| artifact | job | an object worked on | |
| act | job | the responsibility to do something | |
| act | job | the performance of a piece of work | |
| act | job | a damaging piece of work | |
| state | job, problem | a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved | |
| person | Job | a Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him | |
| person | Job | any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing | |
| communication | job | (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit | |
| communication | Job, Book of Job | a book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply | |
| act | job, caper | a crime (especially a robbery) | |
| VERB | social | job | profit privately from public office and official business |
| social | job, subcontract, farm out | arranged for contracted work to be done by others | |
| social | job | work occasionally | |
| possession | job, speculate | invest at a risk |
| Sounds | jhaa'b; jhow'b | |
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| Meaning | A specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee. | |
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| Synonyms | task, chore | |
| Narrower | ball-buster, ball-breaker | A job or situation that is demanding and arduous / arduous / arduous and punishing |
| scut work, shitwork | Trivial, unrewarding, tedious, dirty, and disagreeable chores | |
| stint | An individual's prescribed share of work | |
| Broader | duty | Work that you are obliged to perform for moral or legal reasons |
| Spanish | cometido, faena, labor, mandado, quehacer, tarea, trabajo | |
| Catalan | feina, quefer, tasca, treball | |
| Verbs | job | work occasionally |
| job | arranged for contracted work to be done by others | |
| Meaning | A workplace; as in the expression "on the job". | |
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| Broader | workplace, work | A place where work is done |
| Spanish | curro, trabajo | |
| Verbs | job | work occasionally |
| job | arranged for contracted work to be done by others | |
| Meaning | An object worked on; a result produced by working. | |
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| Example | "he held the job in his left hand and worked on it with his right" | |
| Broader | product, production | An artifact that has been created by someone or some process |
| Verbs | job | work occasionally |
| job | arranged for contracted work to be done by others | |
| Meaning | The responsibility to do something. | |
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| Example | "it is their job to print the truth" | |
| Broader | duty, responsibility, obligation | The social force that binds you to the courses of action demanded by that force |
| Spanish | cargo, deber, tarea, trabajo | |
| Catalan | deure, feina, tasca | |
| Meaning | The performance of a piece of work. | |
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| Broader | work | Activity directed toward making or doing something |
| Spanish | destajo, trabajo | |
| Verbs | job | work occasionally |
| job | arranged for contracted work to be done by others | |
| Meaning | A damaging piece of work. | |
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| Broader | work | Activity directed toward making or doing something |
| Catalan | faena | |
| Meaning | A state of difficulty that needs to be resolved. | |
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| Example | "it is always a job to contact him" | |
| Synonym | problem | |
| Narrower | balance-of-payments problem | An economic problem caused by payments for imports being greater than receipts for exports |
| race problem | A social and political problem caused by conflict between races occupying the same or adjacent regions | |
| Broader | difficulty | A condition or state of affairs almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring great effort to bear or overcome |
| Spanish | dificultad, problema | |
| Catalan | dificultat, problema | |
| Meaning | A Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him. | |
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| Instance of | hero | A man distinguished by exceptional courage and nobility and strength |
| Spanish | Job | |
| Catalan | Job | |
| Meaning | Any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing. | |
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| Broader | unfortunate, unfortunate person | A person who suffers misfortune |
| Meaning | (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit. | |
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| Category | computer science, computing | The branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures |
| Broader | application, application program, applications programme | A program that gives a computer instructions that provide the user with tools to accomplish a task |
| Spanish | tarea | |
| Catalan | tasca | |
| Meaning | A book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply. | |
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| Synonym | Book of Job | |
| Instance of | book | A major division of a long written composition |
| Part of | Hagiographa, Ketubim, Writings | The third of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures |
| Old Testament | The collection of books comprising the sacred scripture of the Hebrews and recording their history as the chosen people | |
| Spanish | Job | |
| Catalan | Job | |
| Meaning | A crime (especially a robbery). | |
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| Example | "the gang pulled off a bank job in St. Louis" | |
| Synonym | caper | |
| Broader | robbery | larceny by threat / threat of violence |
| Spanish | delito común, trabajito | |
| Meaning | Profit privately from public office and official business. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s | |
| Broader | cheat, chisel | Engage in deceitful behavior |
| Spanish | chupar del bote | |
| Meaning | Arranged for contracted work to be done by others. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s something to somebody | |
| Synonyms | subcontract, farm out | |
| Broader | hire, engage, employ | Engage or hire for work |
| Spanish | subcontratar | |
| Nouns | job | a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee |
| job | the performance of a piece of work | |
| job | a workplace | |
| job | an object worked on | |
| Meaning | Work occasionally. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s PP | |
| Example | "As a student I jobbed during the semester breaks" | |
| Broader | work, do work | Be employed |
| Spanish | trabajar esporádicamente | |
| Nouns | job | a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee |
| job | the performance of a piece of work | |
| job | a workplace | |
| job | an object worked on | |
| Meaning | invest at a risk. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s PP | |
| Synonym | speculate | |
| Narrower | bull | try to raise the price of stocks through speculative buying |
| Broader | invest, put, commit, place | make an investment |
| Spanish | especular, trabajar | |
| Catalan | especular | |
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