Job crossword clue

The most likely answers for the crossword clue “Job” are LINE, TASK or POST, with 4 letters. Below are 27 answers from 4 to 11 letters, best match first in each length, then what each top answer means and how to tell them apart.

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The best answers, explained

LINE 4 letters · noun

the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money “he's not in my line of business”

CHORE 5 letters · noun

a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee “the farmer's morning chores”

OFFICE 6 letters · noun

a job in an organization

PROBLEM 7 letters · noun

a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved “she and her husband are having problems”

BUSINESS 8 letters · noun

the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money “he's not in my line of business”

SPECULATE 9 letters · verb

invest at a risk

OCCUPATION 10 letters · noun

the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money

SUBCONTRACT 11 letters · verb

arranged for contracted work to be done by others

Telling them apart

With 4 squares, LINE, TASK, POST, FILL and DYER all fit. The first letter tells them all apart: L → LINE · T → TASK · P → POST · F → FILL · D → DYER. Fill in that crossing answer first.

With 5 squares, CHORE, CAPER, PLACE and BERTH all fit. The second letter tells them all apart: H → CHORE · A → CAPER · L → PLACE · E → BERTH. Fill in that crossing answer first.

With 6 squares, OFFICE, RESIGN and VACATE all fit. The first letter tells them all apart: O → OFFICE · R → RESIGN · V → VACATE. Fill in that crossing answer first.

Other forms of this clue

Clues often use another form of the word, and the answer then takes the same form: “jobbed” wants an answer that ends the same way.

What “job” means

• noun: the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
• 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”)
• 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”)

A clue usually points at one of these senses, so the right answer is the one that matches the sense the puzzle means: check it against the crossing words.

About these answers

We match the clue against our own thesaurus and dictionary (Open English WordNet): words that mean the same as JOB, and words whose definition is JOB. We don't copy answers from newspaper puzzles, so a clue that leans on trivia or wordplay may need the crossing letters instead.