Job
A job, or occupation, is a person’s role in society. More specifically, a job is an activity, often regular and often performed in exchange for payment (“for a living”). Many people have multiple jobs (e.g., parent, homemaker, and employee). A person can begin a job by becoming an employee, volunteering, starting a business, or becoming a parent. The duration of a job may range from temporary (e.g., hourly odd jobs) to a lifetime (e.g., judges).
An activity that requires a person’s mental or physical effort is work (as in “a day’s work”). If a person is trained for a certain type of job, they may have a profession. Typically, a job would be a subset of someone’s career. The two may differ in that one usually retires from their career, versus resignation or termination from a job.
Work (noun)
Employment.
Work (noun)
Labour, occupation, job.
“My work involves a lot of travel.”
Work (noun)
The place where one is employed.
“He hasn’t come home yet, he’s still at work.”
Work (noun)
Effort.
Work (noun)
One’s employer
Work (noun)
Effort expended on a particular task.
“Holding a brick over your head is hard work. It takes a lot of work to write a dictionary.”
Work (noun)
Sustained human effort to overcome obstacles and achieve a result.
“We know what we must do. Let’s go to work.”
Work (noun)
Something on which effort is expended.
“There’s lots of work waiting for me at the office.”
Work (noun)
A measure of energy expended in moving an object; most commonly, force times distance. No work is done if the object does not move.
“Work is done against friction to drag a bag along the ground.”
Work (noun)
Sustained effort to achieve a goal or result, especially overcoming obstacles.
“We don’t have much time. Let’s get to work piling up those sandbags.”
Work (noun)
Product; the result of effort.
Work (noun)
A measure of energy that is usefully extracted from a process.
Work (noun)
The result of a particular manner of production.
“There’s a lot of guesswork involved.”
Work (noun)
Something produced using the specified material or tool.
“We’ve got some paperwork to do before we can get started. The piece was decorated with intricate filigree work.”
Work (noun)
A literary, artistic, or intellectual production.
“It is a work of art.”
“the poetic works of Alexander Pope”
Work (noun)
The staging of events to appear as real.
Work (noun)
Ore before it is dressed.
Work (noun)
The equipment needed to inject a drug (syringes, needles, swabs etc.)
“Tell me you’re using clean works at least.”
Work (verb)
To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
“He’s working in a bar.”
Work (verb)
Followed by in (or at, etc.) Said of one’s workplace (building), or one’s department, or one’s trade (sphere of business).
“I work in a national park”
“she works in the human resources department”
“he mostly works in logging, but sometimes works in carpentry”
Work (verb)
Followed by as. Said of one’s job title
“I work as a cleaner.”
Work (verb)
Followed by for. Said of a company or individual who employs.
“she works for Microsoft”
“he works for the president”
Work (verb)
To effect by gradual degrees.
“he worked his way through the crowd”
“the dye worked its way through”
“using some tweezers, she worked the bee sting out of her hand”
Work (verb)
To embroider with thread.
Work (verb)
To set into action.
“He worked the levers.”
Work (verb)
To cause to ferment.
Work (verb)
To ferment.
Work (verb)
To exhaust, by working.
“The mine was worked until the last scrap of ore had been extracted.”
Work (verb)
To shape, form, or improve a material.
“He used pliers to work the wire into shape.”
Work (verb)
To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
“she works the night clubs”
“the salesman works the Midwest”
“this artist works mostly in acrylics”
Work (verb)
To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.
Work (verb)
To provoke or excite; to influence.
“The rock musician worked the crowd of young girls into a frenzy.”
Work (verb)
To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
“She knows how to work the system.”
Work (verb)
To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
“I cannot work a miracle.”
Work (verb)
To cause to work.
“He is working his servants hard.”
Work (verb)
To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
“he pointed at the car and asked, “Does it work”?;”
“he looked at the bottle of pain pills, wondering if they would work;”
“my plan didn’t work”
Work (verb)
To influence.
“They worked on her to join the group.”
Work (verb)
To effect by gradual degrees; as, to work into the earth.
Work (verb)
To move in an agitated manner.
“His fingers worked with tension.”
“A ship works in a heavy sea.”
Work (verb)
To behave in a certain way when handled
“this dough does not work easily;”
“the soft metal works well”
Work (verb)
To cause (someone) to feel (something); to do unto somebody (something, whether good or bad).
Work (verb)
To hurt; to ache.
Job (noun)
A task.
“I’ve got a job for you – could you wash the dishes?”
“A job half done is hardly done at all.”
Job (noun)
An economic role for which a person is paid.
“That surgeon has a great job.”
“He’s been out of a job since being made redundant in January.”
Job (noun)
Plastic surgery.
“He had had a nose job.”
Job (noun)
A task, or series of tasks, carried out in batch mode (especially on a mainframe computer).
Job (noun)
A sudden thrust or stab; a jab.
Job (noun)
A public transaction done for private profit; something performed ostensibly as a part of official duty, but really for private gain; a corrupt official business.
Job (noun)
Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately.
Job (noun)
A thing (often used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall).
“Pass me that little job with the screw thread on it.””
Job (verb)
To do odd jobs or occasional work for hire.
Job (verb)
To work as a jobber.
Job (verb)
To take the loss.
Job (verb)
To buy and sell for profit, as securities; to speculate in.
Job (verb)
To subcontract a project or delivery in small portions to a number of contractors.
“We wanted to sell a turnkey plant, but they jobbed out the contract to small firms.”
Job (verb)
To seek private gain under pretence of public service; to turn public matters to private advantage.
Job (verb)
To strike or stab with a pointed instrument.
Job (verb)
To thrust in, as a pointed instrument.
Job (verb)
To hire or let in periods of service.
“to job a carriage”