job
工作,职务,工作机会,工作岗位
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Definitions
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- : a piece of work, especially a specific task done as part of the routine of one's occupation or for an agreed price: She gave him the job of mowing the lawn.
- : a post of employment; full-time or part-time position: She was seeking a job as an editor.
- : anything a person is expected or obliged to do; duty; responsibility: It is your job to be on time.
- : an affair, matter, occurrence, or state of affairs: to make the best of a bad job.
- : the material, project, assignment, etc., being worked upon: The housing project was a long and costly job.
- : the process or requirements, details, etc., of working: It was a tedious job.
- : the execution or performance of a task: She did a good job.
- : Informal. a medical procedure or operation performed to improve the appearance of a specified part of the body: a nose job; a boob job to enlarge her breasts.
- : Slang. a theft or similar criminal action: The police caught the gang that pulled that bank job.
- : a public or official act or decision carried through for the sake of improper private gain.
- : Slang. an example of a specific or distinctive type: That little six-cylinder job was the best car I ever owned.That guy sure is a good-looking job.
- : Computers. a unit of work for a computer, generally comprising an application program or group of related programs and the data, linkages, and instructions to the operating system needed for running the programs.
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jobbed, job·bing.
- : to work at jobs or odd pieces of work; work by the piece.
- : to do business as a jobber.
- : to turn public business, planning, etc., improperly to private gain.
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jobbed, job·bing.
- : to assign or give in separate portions, as among different contractors or workers: He jobbed out the contract to a number of small outfits.
- : to buy in large quantities, as from wholesalers or manufacturers, and sell to dealers in smaller quantities: He jobs shoes in Ohio and Indiana.
- : to get rid of or dispose of: His party jobbed him when he sought a second term in office.
- : to swindle or trick: They jobbed him out of his property.
- : to carry on for improper private gain.
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- : of or for a particular job or transaction.
- : bought, sold, or handled together: He's too big a customer to buy in less than job quantities.
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Examples
They’re very upset that we’ve done such a good job with the vaccine.
College students, searching for a way to get job-ready, flocked to the platform from Northern Italy to South-East Asia, to all over the United States.
It’s hard not to be happy with the job we’re doing, that I can tell you.
If those are attributable to the novel coronavirus, we’ve already moved out of good-job territory.
After a pause during lockdown, lenders from Citigroup to HSBC Holdings have restarted cuts, taking gross losses announced this year to a combined 63,785 jobs, according to a Bloomberg analysis of filings.
Then add in all bored people, as well as people whose job it is to report on celebrities.
That officer fretting about his “stance,” we learn, is plagued by PTSD that cripples him both on the job and at home.
Eric Garcetti succeeded Villaraigosa and has received high marks in his first year and a half on the job.
“I love my job and I love my city and I am committed to the work here,” he said in a statement.
It has nothing to do with the regulatory job he is nominated for.
Elyon is the name of an ancient Phœnician god, slain by his son El, no doubt the “first-born of death” in Job xviii.
Thus was the man left entirely to the devil, not even his life being reserved, as in the case of Job.
The majority pick up a job when they can, but are inevitably idle and suffering two-thirds of the time.
I'm somewhat puzzled to know why they didn't stand pat and make a clean job of us both.
I have recently found out that she was christened Tabitha—or, anyhow, would have been, if the clergyman had known his job.