English to English
noun
- the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
He's not in my line of business.
source: WordNet 3.0
- 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.
source: WordNet 3.0
- a workplace; as in the expression
On the job.
source: WordNet 3.0
- an object worked on; a result produced by working
He held the job in his left hand and worked on it with his right.
source: WordNet 3.0
- the responsibility to do something
It is their job to print the truth.
source: WordNet 3.0
- the performance of a piece of work
She did an outstanding job as Ophelia.
He gave it up as a bad job.
source: WordNet 3.0
- a damaging piece of work
Dry rot did the job of destroying the barn.
The barber did a real job on my hair.
source: WordNet 3.0
- 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.
source: WordNet 3.0
- a Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him
source: WordNet 3.0
- any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing
source: WordNet 3.0
- (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit
source: WordNet 3.0
- a book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply
source: WordNet 3.0
- a crime (especially a robbery)
The gang pulled off a bank job in St. Louis.
source: WordNet 3.0
- A sudden thrust or stab; a jab.
source: Webster 1913
- The hero of the book of that name in the Old Testament; the typical patient man.
source: Webster 1913
verb
- profit privately from public office and official business
source: WordNet 3.0
- arranged for contracted work to be done by others
source: WordNet 3.0
- work occasionally
As a student I jobbed during the semester breaks.
source: WordNet 3.0
- invest at a risk
I bought this house not because I want to live in it but to sell it later at a good price, so I am speculating.
source: WordNet 3.0
- To strike or stab with a pointed instrument.
source: Webster 1913
- To do chance work for hire; to work by the piece; to do petty work.
source: Webster 1913
English to Tagalog
noun
- [dchob] Gawâ; trabaho
source: Diccionario Ingles-Español-Tagalog
