job
- noun
- /dʒɑb/
- Archaic
- After casing the place, we planned the job for weeks before finally executing it.
- an inside job
One last job, they won't even know they were hit.
- One last job, they won't even know they were hit.
Examples
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The police are investigating the latest bank job that took place last night.
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And then I just went off doing other bits of crime again, debt, collecting jobs, all sorts of things like that.
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-We're on a job, buddy.
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Sounds like an inside job to me.
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The whole thing was an inside job.
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You find one big job, do it right - no witnesses.
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Jerry was the inside man on that job.
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I'm trying to pull off the biggest job of my career.
Fiction book (1996) -
He's about to pull a job, and we're running out of time.
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He was known for his clever plans and successful jobs in the underground scene.
Synonyms
Antonyms
Idioms
- Offensive
A joking way to say someone is not good enough to do something as a job
- Literature
A quality of staying calm for a long time despite great problems, like Job in the Bible
Compounds
A meeting where an employer asks someone who wants the job questions to see if they fit
A situation when a person no longer has a job because of company problems or a weak economy
- Offensive
A sexual act where one person uses a hand to touch a man's penis for pleasure
- Literature
A book in the Bible that tells of a man who suffers and God answers him
- Informal
A job many people want because it pays well, gives good benefits or brings respect
- Jargon
An ability a video game character has from their chosen role to do special actions
- Specialized
A computer used for one specific work task, like taking orders
- Specialized
A set of computer commands that tell an operating system which tasks to run
- Literature
A story from the Bible about a man who keeps his faith during great suffering
How Serious
- NSFW
- Archaic
- Formal
Surface Forms
Etymology
Job likely started from an old word gobbet meaning 'a piece', and criminals began using it to mean a planned 'piece of work' like a robbery. So a job in slang is a single criminal act, because it is one planned operation.