| noun | the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money “he's not in my line of business” |
| 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” |
| noun | the responsibility to do something “it is their job to print the truth” |
| noun | the performance of a piece of work “she did an outstanding job as Ophelia” |
| noun | a damaging piece of work “dry rot did the job of destroying the barn” |
| noun | a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved “she and her husband are having problems” |
| noun | a Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him |
| noun | any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing |
| noun | (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit |
| noun | a book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply |
| noun | a crime (especially a robbery) “the gang pulled off a bank job in St. Louis” |
| verb | profit privately from public office and official business |
| verb | arranged for contracted work to be done by others |
| verb | work occasionally “As a student I jobbed during the semester breaks” |
| verb | 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” |
| occupy | verb | consume all of one's attention or time |
| job | verb | work occasionally |
| task | verb | assign a task to |
| problematical | adjective | making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe |
| problematic | adjective | making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe |
| subcontract | noun | a contract assigning to another party some obligations of a prior contract |
| subcontractor | noun | someone who enters into a subcontract with the primary contractor |
| job | noun | an object worked on; a result produced by working |
| speculative | adjective | not financially safe or secure |
| speculation | noun | an investment that is very risky but could yield great profits |
| speculator | noun | someone who risks losses for the possibility of considerable gains |