Synonyms for job
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : job |
| Phonetic Transcription : dÊ’É’b |
Top 10 synonyms for job Other synonyms for the word job
- act
- affair
- berth
- billet
- burden
- calling
- capacity
- charge
- chore
- commission
- concern
- connection
- contribution
- craft
- daily grind
- deed
- devoir
- engagement
- enterprise
- errand
- faculty
- function
- gig
- grind
- handicraft
- line
- livelihood
- matter
- means
- métier
- mission
- niche
- nine-to-five
- obligation
- occupation
- 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
Définition of job
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
- He added: "You boys play a game; I'm going to break in Lanning to our job."
- Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
- "I think this job is going to prove worth while," he returned.
- Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
- I'd give a thousand dollars, if I had it, to be free of this job.
- Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
- That jeweler ought to have my job, 'cause he sure robbed you!
- Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
- Did he give one good piece of advice while we were plannin' the job?
- Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
- It is my part to "keep my job," since if I don't I may find it hard to get another.
- Extract from : « The Conquest of Fear » by Basil King
- My "job" could not be "swung" by anyone else, since everyone else is essential to the swinging of his own.
- Extract from : « The Conquest of Fear » by Basil King
- You're so good you would have had Job himself take it coolly.
- Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
- The book and the personality of Job have caused much controversy.
- Extract from : « A Theological-Political Treatise [Part II] » by Benedict of Spinoza
- Palmer had given him a man's job, and he would stick by it, no matter what came.
- Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
Antonyms for job
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