job
job is a 3-letter English word with 31 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A sudden thrust or stab; a jab. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. A sudden thrust or stab; a jab.
- noun. A piece of chance or occasional work; any definite work undertaken in gross for a fixed price; as, he did the job for a thousand dollars.
- 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.
- noun. Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately.
- noun. A situation or opportunity of work; as, he lost his job.
- transitive verb. To strike or stab with a pointed instrument.
- transitive verb. To thrust in, as a pointed instrument.
- transitive verb. To do or cause to be done by separate portions or lots; to sublet (work); as, to job a contract.
- transitive verb. To buy and sell, as a broker; to purchase of importers or manufacturers for the purpose of selling to retailers; as, to job goods.
- transitive verb. To hire or let by the job or for a period of service; as, to job a carriage.
- intransitive verb. To do chance work for hire; to work by the piece; to do petty work.
- intransitive verb. To seek private gain under pretense of public service; to turn public matters to private advantage.
- intransitive verb. To carry on the business of a jobber in merchandise or stocks.
- noun. The hero of the book of that name in the Old Testament; the typical patient man.
- noun. a damaging piece of work
"dry rot did the job of destroying the barn"
"the barber did a real job on my hair"
- noun. the performance of a piece of work
"she did an outstanding job as Ophelia"
"he gave it up as a bad job"
- noun. the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
"he's not in my line of business"
- noun. the responsibility to do something
"it is their job to print the truth"
- noun. 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"
- noun. a crime (especially a robbery)
"the gang pulled off a bank job in St. Louis"
- noun. a workplace; as in the expression "on the job"
- noun. an object worked on; a result produced by working
"he held the job in his left hand and worked on it with his right"
- noun. a book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply
- noun. (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit
- noun. any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing
- noun. a Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him
- noun. a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved
"she and her husband are having problems"
"it is always a job to contact him"
- verb. 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"
- verb. work occasionally
"As a student I jobbed during the semester breaks"
- verb. arranged for contracted work to be done by others
- verb. profit privately from public office and official business
Synonyms
business, line, occupation, chore, task, caper, problem, speculate, subcontract
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in job:
Common word forms
jobs, jobbed, jobber, jobbing, jobless
Words from these letters
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