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Antonyms for jobs
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : job |
| Phonetic Transcription : dʒɒb |
Definition of jobs
Origin :- 1550s, in phrase jobbe of worke "piece of work" (contrasted with continuous labor), of uncertain origin, perhaps a variant of gobbe "mass, lump" (c.1400; see gob) via sense of "a cart-load." Sense of "work done for pay" first recorded 1650s. Thieves' slang sense of "theft, robbery, a planned crime" is from 1722. Printing sense is from 1795. Slang meaning "specimen, thing, person" is from 1927.
- job. (1) A low mean lucrative busy affair. (2) Petty, piddling work; a piece of chance work. [Johnson's Dictionary]
- On the job "hard at work" is from 1882. Job lot is from obsolete sense of "cartload, lump," which might also ultimately be from gob. Job security attested by 1954; job description by 1920; job-sharing by 1972.
- noun employment
- noun task
- Millions who still had jobs feared that they would lose them.
- Extract from : « The Conquest of Fear » by Basil King
- Millions who had lost their jobs began to fear penury and want.
- Extract from : « The Conquest of Fear » by Basil King
- To the fear of losing our jobs is added the fear of losing our lives.
- Extract from : « The Conquest of Fear » by Basil King
- He's found me four or five jobs with friends of his—like yourself.
- Extract from : « The Fortune Hunter » by Louis Joseph Vance
- You've missed all the millions of people here who depend on the place for their jobs and their lives.
- Extract from : « The Harbor » by Ernest Poole
- They don't like their jobs, with no day and no night, only steel walls and electric light!
- Extract from : « The Harbor » by Ernest Poole
- The three other workmen came over, leaving their jobs, to watch.
- Extract from : « L'Assommoir » by Emile Zola
- If that's so, every one of the Old Home House eleven was onto their jobs.
- Extract from : « The Depot Master » by Joseph C. Lincoln
- At the beginnin' of the next spring season both of 'em was round huntin' jobs.
- Extract from : « The Depot Master » by Joseph C. Lincoln
- Some of you have stuck to your jobs like men, in spite of the talk you've heard all about you, and I thank you.
- Extract from : « The Vagrant Duke » by George Gibbs
Synonyms for jobs
- act
- action
- activity
- affair
- appointment
- assignment
- berth
- billet
- burden
- business
- calling
- capacity
- care
- career
- charge
- chore
- commission
- concern
- connection
- contribution
- craft
- daily grind
- deed
- devoir
- duty
- effort
- engagement
- enterprise
- errand
- faculty
- function
- gig
- grind
- handicraft
- line
- livelihood
- matter
- means
- métier
- mission
- niche
- nine-to-five
- obligation
- occupation
- office
- opening
- operation
- place
- position
- post
- posting
- profession
- project
- province
- pursuit
- racket
- rat race
- responsibility
- role
- situation
- spot
- stint
- swindle
- task
- taskwork
- thing
- tour of duty
- trade
- undertaking
- venture
- vocation
- work
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