job
nouns
the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
"he's not in my line of business"
a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee
"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"
a workplace; as in the expression "on the job";
an object worked on; a result produced by working
"he held the job in his left hand and worked on it with his right"
is a type of (narrower)
an artifact that has been created by someone or some process
"they improve their product every year"; "they export most of their agricultural production"
the responsibility to do something
"it is their job to print the truth"
is a type of (narrower)
the social force that binds you to the courses of action demanded by that force
"we must instill a sense of duty in our children"; "every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty"- John D.Rockefeller Jr
the performance of a piece of work
"she did an outstanding job as Ophelia"; "he gave it up as a bad job"
is a type of (narrower)
activity directed toward making or doing something
"she checked several points needing further work"
a damaging piece of work
"dry rot did the job of destroying the barn"; "the barber did a real job on my hair"
is a type of (narrower)
activity directed toward making or doing something
"she checked several points needing further work"
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"
(computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit
domain category
the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures
is a type of (narrower)
a program that gives a computer instructions that provide the user with tools to accomplish a task
"he has tried several different word processing applications"
verbs
profit privately from public office and official business
work occasionally
"As a student I jobbed during the semester breaks"
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