jobbed (See job)
Dictionary Definition
Noun
1 the principal activity in your life that you do
to earn money; "he's not in my line of business" [syn: occupation, business, line of
work, line]
2 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" [syn: task, chore]
3 the performance of a piece of work; "she did an
outstanding job as Ophelia"; "he gave it up as a bad job"
4 the responsibility to do something; "it is
their job to print the truth"
5 a workplace; as in the expression "on the
job";
6 an object worked on; a result produced by
working; "he held the job in his left hand and worked on it with
his right"
7 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" [syn: problem]
8 a damaging piece of work; "dry rot did the job
of destroying the barn"; "the barber did a real job on my
hair"
9 a crime (especially a robbery); "the gang
pulled off a bank job in St. Louis" [syn: caper]
10 a Jewish hero in the Old Testament who
maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested
him
11 any long-suffering person who withstands
affliction without despairing
12 (computer science) a program application that
may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit
13 a book in the Old Testament containing Job's
pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply [syn: Book of
Job]
Verb
1 profit privately from public office and
official business
2 arranged for contracted work to be done by
others [syn: subcontract, farm out]
3 work occasionally; "As a student I jobbed
during the semester breaks"
4 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" [syn: speculate] [also: jobbing, jobbed]
User Contributed Dictionary
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Verb
jobbed- past of job