job in WordNet English dictionary

1. the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
   "he's not in my line of business"
   occupation  business  job  line of work  line 
   
2. a crime (especially a robbery)
   "the gang pulled off a bank job in St. Louis"
   caper  job 
   
3. 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"; "the job of repairing the engine took several hours"; "the endless task of classifying the samples"; "the farmer's morning chores"
   job  task  chore 
   
4. a damaging piece of work
   "dry rot did the job of destroying the barn"; "the barber did a real job on my hair"
   job 
   
5. the responsibility to do something
   "it is their job to print the truth"
   job 
   
6. the performance of a piece of work
   "she did an outstanding job as Ophelia"; "he gave it up as a bad job"
   job 
   
7. a workplace; as in the expression "on the job";
   job 
   
8. an object worked on; a result produced by working
   "he held the job in his left hand and worked on it with his right"
   job 
   
9. (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit
   job 
   
10. a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved
    "she and her husband are having problems"; "it is always a job to contact him"; "urban problems such as traffic congestion and smog"
    problem  job 
    

1. arranged for contracted work to be done by others
   subcontract  farm out  job 
   
2. 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"
   speculate  job 
   
3. work occasionally
   "As a student I jobbed during the semester breaks"
   job 
   
4. profit privately from public office and official business
   job