Quotes about "job"

• Noun: the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money; example: "he's not in my line of business"

• Noun: a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee; examples: "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"

• Noun: the performance of a piece of work; examples: "she did an outstanding job as Ophelia", "he gave it up as a bad job"

• Noun: the responsibility to do something; example: "it is their job to print the truth"

• Noun: a workplace; as in the expression "on the job";

• Noun: an object worked on; a result produced by working; example: "he held the job in his left hand and worked on it with his right"

• Noun: a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved; examples: "she and her husband are having problems", "it is always a job to contact him", "urban problems such as traffic congestion and smog"

• Noun: a damaging piece of work; examples: "dry rot did the job of destroying the barn", "the barber did a real job on my hair"

• Noun: a crime (especially a robbery); example: "the gang pulled off a bank job in St. Louis"

• Noun: a Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him

• Noun: any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing

• Noun: (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit

• Noun: a book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply

• Verb: profit privately from public office and official business

• Verb: arranged for contracted work to be done by others

• Verb: work occasionally; example: "As a student I jobbed during the semester breaks"

• Verb: invest at a risk; example: "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"