jobs

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

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"

the responsibility to do something; "it is their job to print the truth"

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"

a Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him

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

a book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply

arranged for contracted work to be done by others

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"