Word Finder - job

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A task.

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A job half done is hardly done at all.

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An economic role for which a person is paid.

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He's been out of a job since being made redundant in January.

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(in noun compounds) Plastic surgery.

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He had had a nose job.

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A task, or series of tasks, carried out in batch mode (especially on a mainframe computer).

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A sudden thrust or stab; a jab.

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A public transaction done for private profit; something performed ostensibly as a part of official duty, but really for private gain; a corrupt official business.

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Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately.

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A thing (often used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall).

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Pass me that little job with the screw thread on it.

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To do odd jobs or occasional work for hire.

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To work as a jobber.

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To take the loss.

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To buy and sell for profit, as securities; to speculate in.

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(often with out) To subcontract a project or delivery in small portions to a number of contractors.

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We wanted to sell a turnkey plant, but they jobbed out the contract to small firms.

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To seek private gain under pretence of public service; to turn public matters to private advantage.

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To strike or stab with a pointed instrument.

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To thrust in, as a pointed instrument.

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To hire or let in periods of service.

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to job a carriage

Hopefully, she could get her job at the diner.

We can handle this job by ourselves.

What kind of job are you looking for?

I only bossed the job, as we say in Omaha.

If you decide to take the job, have your things ready then.

It's an easy job, like I expected.

When a person learns to do one job and specializes in that one job, she gets really good at it.

The job was probably filled by now, anyway.

I hope you decide to take the job.

Do you think I can get a job at the diner again?

Do you want the job or don't you?

What makes you think I'm qualified for the job?

She sent to Bartlesville for information on the pediatrics ward and hinted at interest in a job there.

What if you get a new job someday and stop selling drugs?

At one point, Fate had told him a story about how he tricked the goddess into a series of agreements that landed her out of a job.

A man of few words, Gabriel hadn't gotten used to the political side of his job yet.

You can't sit here on such a beautiful night and think about the day job.

I mean - well, you have a good job...

Fred did say Chip Burgess was gone, his contracting job now completed.

Boozing on the job?

Did you get the job?

Help your temporary mama keep her job, she said to the cat.

Wherever we go, I can find a job to fit my goals.

Actually, it could stand a good washing and a paint job, but surely he didn't expect her to do that.

I'll need that sheriff's job.

Bumpin' Bertha here doesn't make very good time but she's been getting the job done for a lot of years.

Why are you back on the job?

I don't want to be out of a job.

When his job was finished, she would never see him again.

Everything on mine is original - including the paint job.

They all didn't understand that she couldn't simply run out and get a job like she had in Tulsa.

She'd be willing to take a job someplace else.

When she was young and naive, she had dreamed of such a job.

Getting a job in Bartlesville would only make everyone believe she was still in love with Brandon.

She had the job she had planned for the last three years.

It did sound like an interesting job, and she wasn't likely to see Brandon anyway.

You said you had a job.

Royce and I have been considering a job with an outfit in Wyoming.

All I want is the job.

Why had Cade singled her out for the job?

Everything considered, it was easier to make the decision to take the job than to placate Mary.

I'm here to do a job.

The job is done - and done correctly.

Should she walk away from this job?

It was hard enough to make ends meet before she took the job at the ranch.

The accident did a hell of a job and the long coma and operations further messed him up.

I speculated out loud about giving up my job.

Now, if you're acting sheriff or whatever the hell your position is, it's your damned job to follow through.

Early on you were pretty wishy-washy about the job.

His day job is to kill people.