Synonyms for job
Another word for job is business, line or line of work. Below are 10 synonyms and 30 related words across 12 senses.
Also searched as: jobbed, jobber, jobbing, jobs.
1. noun: the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
- business synonyms
- line synonyms
- line of work
- occupation synonyms
2. noun: a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee
- task synonyms
- chore
3. noun: a workplace; as in the expression ‘on the job’
4. noun: an object worked on; a result produced by working
5. noun: the responsibility to do something
6. noun: the performance of a piece of work
7. noun: a damaging piece of work
8. noun: a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved
- problem
9. noun: (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit
10. noun: a crime (especially a robbery)
- caper
11. verb: profit privately from public office and official business
12. verb: arranged for contracted work to be done by others
- farm out
- subcontract
Related words
Broader, narrower and sibling terms from the same WordNet tree. They aren't interchangeable, but one of them is often the word you wanted.
- work synonyms
- game synonyms
- place synonyms
- post synonyms
- office synonyms
- land synonyms
- position synonyms
- trade synonyms
- situation synonyms
- career synonyms
- calling
- activity synonyms
- sport synonyms
- medium synonyms
- employment synonyms
- duty synonyms
- stint synonyms
- ball-breaker
- ball-buster
- scut work
- shitwork
- workplace
- production synonyms
- product synonyms
- responsibility synonyms
- obligation synonyms
- race problem
- difficulty
- balance-of-payments problem
- difficultness
Job in word games
- Letters
- 3
- Scrabble
- 12
- Words With Friends
- 15
- How common
- Everyday word
- Unscramble JOB
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Questions people ask
What is another word for job?
You can say business, line, line of work, occupation or task instead of job. Which one fits depends on the sense; the first sense above means "the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money".
What is the opposite of job?
WordNet lists no direct antonym for job; the nearest opposites depend on which sense you mean.
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