Etimology
From the phrase jobbe of work (“piece of work”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from a variant of Middle English gobbe (“mass, lump”); or perhaps related to Middle English jobben (“to jab, thrust, peck”), or Middle English choppe (“piece, bargain”). More at gob, jab, chop.
noun
job (plural jobs)
A task.
An economic role for which a person is paid.
(in noun compounds) Plastic surgery.
(in noun compounds) A sex act.
(computing) A task, or series of tasks, carried out in batch mode (especially on a mainframe computer).
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.
(informal) A robbery or heist.
Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately.
(colloquial) A thing or whatsit (often used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall).
(UK, slang, law enforcement) The police as a profession, act of policing, or an individual police officer.
Examples
I've got a job for you - could you wash the dishes?
And it's my job to take care of the skanks on the road that you bang.
That surgeon has a great job.
He's been out of a job since being made redundant in January.
I was looking for a job and then I found a job / And heaven knows I'm miserable now
Policing the relationship between government and business in a free society is difficult. Businesspeople have every right to lobby governments, and civil servants to take jobs in the private sector.
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He had a nose job.
hand job
You men have no idea what we're dealing with down there. Teeth placement, and jaw stress, and suction, and gag reflex, and all the while bobbing up and down, moaning and trying to breathe through our noses. Easy? Honey, they don't call it a job for nothing.
a bank job
This freak Vernon got the intelligence on the safe job and passed it on to some other freak, a guy that hears voices in his head and talks back to them. […] We don't think [Vernon's squeeze] is in on the heist, but she apparently is in love with this creep who is laying the pipe in her trough!
Pass me that little job with the screw thread on it.
One of them was about nine years ago when I stood in white tie and tails beside a little blonde job down in front of the First Methodist Church of Birmingham, […]
“He was ex-job, Beavis. Detective sergeant out of County, Banbury, retired in ‘59.”
But there it was on the screen: The personal details of his old colleague from Kennington station in the late nineties. […] She’s job. We used to work together.
“I’m job, D.S Townsend. I have to report a missing person.”
verb
job (third-person singular simple present jobs, present participle jobbing, simple past and past participle jobbed)
(intransitive) To do odd jobs or occasional work for hire.
(intransitive) To work as a jobber.
(intransitive, professional wrestling slang) To take the loss, usually in a demeaning or submissive manner.
(transitive, trading) To buy and sell for profit, as securities; to speculate in.
(transitive, often with out) To subcontract a project or delivery in small portions to a number of contractors.
(intransitive) To seek private gain under pretence of public service; to turn public matters to private advantage.
To hire or let in periods of service.
Examples
Authors of all work, to job for the season.
We wanted to sell a turnkey plant, but they jobbed out the contract to small firms.
And judges job, and bishops bite the town.
to job a carriage
[…] ...and a pair of handsome horses were jobbed, with which Jos drove about in state in the park...
Etimology
Imitative.
verb
job (third-person singular simple present jobs, present participle jobbing, simple past and past participle jobbed)
(intransitive, now rare, regional) To peck (of a bird); (more generally) to poke or prod (at, into). [from 15th c.]
(transitive) To pierce or poke (someone or something), typically with a sharp or pointed object; to stab. [from 16th c.]
(transitive, now Australia) To hit (someone) with a quick, sharp punch; to jab. [from 19th c.]
Examples
a raven pitch'd upon him, and there sate, jobbing of the sore
He had ‘jobbed out’ the eye of one gentleman.
A stranger jobbed me in the mug so hard that I fell off my chair.
noun
job (plural jobs)
(obsolete) A sudden thrust or stab; a jab or punch. [16th–20th c.]
Examples
Fair dinkum, a man ought to give you a job in the b— face.