job
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Is job a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
What is the meaning of job?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (in noun compounds) Plastic surgery.Examples: "He had a nose job."
2. (in noun compounds) A sex act.Examples: "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."
3. (computing) A task, or series of tasks, carried out in batch mode (especially on a mainframe computer).
4. (informal) A robbery or heist.Examples: "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!"informal
5. (colloquial) A thing or whatsit (often used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall).Examples: "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 (laughter and applause) down in front of the First Methodist Church of Birmingham, […]"Synonyms: Sorted by number of Google hits, widget, hickey, gizmo, thingy, gimmick, thingie, jiggercolloquial
6. (UK, slang, law enforcement) The police as a profession, act of policing, or an individual police officer.Examples: "“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.”"UKslang
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To do odd jobs or occasional work for hire.Examples: "Authors of all work, to job for the season."intransitive
2. (intransitive) To work as a jobber.intransitive
3. (intransitive, professional wrestling slang) To take the loss, usually in a demeaning or submissive manner.intransitiveslang
4. (transitive, trading) To buy and sell for profit, as securities; to speculate in.transitive
5. (transitive, often with out) To subcontract a project or delivery in small portions to a number of contractors.Examples: "We wanted to sell a turnkey plant, but they jobbed out the contract to small firms."oftentransitive
6. (intransitive) To seek private gain under pretence of public service; to turn public matters to private advantage.Examples: "And judges job, and bishops bite the town."intransitive
verb (English)
1. (intransitive, now rare, regional) To peck (of a bird); (more generally) to poke or prod (at, into).Examples: "a raven pitch'd upon him, and there sate, jobbing of the sore"archaicintransitiveregional
2. (transitive) To pierce or poke (someone or something), typically with a sharp or pointed object; to stab.Examples: "He had ‘jobbed out’ the eye of one gentleman."Synonyms: jab, run through, chef, chib, ching, chive, enthrill, fointransitive
3. (transitive, now Australia) To hit (someone) with a quick, sharp punch; to jab.Examples: "A stranger jobbed me in the mug so hard that I fell off my chair."Australiatransitive
noun (English)
1. (obsolete) A sudden thrust or stab; a jab or punch.Examples: "Fair dinkum, a man ought to give you a job in the b— face."obsolete
name (English)
1. (biblical) A book of the Old Testament and the Hebrew Tanakh.
2. (biblical) A character in the Old Testament and the Qur'an, renowned for his patience.Synonyms: Ayub, Ayoub
noun (English)
1. (figurative) A person who shows remarkable patience, especially in the face of great misfortune.figuratively
Definition source: Wiktionary