Job definition

Job as a noun

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

   Same sense: business, line, line of work, occupation

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"

   Same sense: task, chore

3. a workplace; as in the expression ‘on the job’

4. an object worked on; a result produced by working

   "he held the job in his left hand and worked on it with his right"

5. the responsibility to do something

   "it is their job to print the truth"

6. the performance of a piece of work

   "she did an outstanding job as Ophelia"

7. a damaging piece of work

   "dry rot did the job of destroying the barn"

8. a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved

   "it is always a job to contact him"

   Same sense: problem

9. (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit

10. a crime (especially a robbery)

    "the gang pulled off a bank job in St. Louis"

    Same sense: caper

Job as a verb

11. profit privately from public office and official business

12. arranged for contracted work to be done by others

    Same sense: farm out, subcontract

13. work occasionally

    "As a student I jobbed during the semester breaks"

14. invest at a risk

    Same sense: speculate

Synonyms and antonyms

• business definition
• line definition
• line of work
• occupation
• task
• chore
• problem definition
• caper
• farm out
• subcontract
• speculate

All synonyms of job, sense by sense

How to say job

Job has 1 syllable and rhymes with bob. Syllable counts and rhymes come from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary.

Words that rhyme with job

• bob
• rob
• mob
• cobb
• knob
• sob
• blob
• cob
• kebab
• lob
• snob
• swab

All 21 words that rhyme with job

JOB in word games

Scrabble

12

Words With Friends

15

Anagrams

0

Is JOB a valid Scrabble word? Yes, it is in the ENABLE list most word games use. Check JOB in the word checker, or unscramble JOB to see the shorter words in its letters.