job
- noun
- /dʒɑb/
- UK
- The vandal did a real job on the front of the store, leaving broken glass everywhere.
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Watch on YouTubeAnd the picador tries to do a major job of weakening the ball.
- And the picador tries to do a major job of weakening the ball.
Examples
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The hacker clearly did a job on the computer system, causing major outages across the network.
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It's doing a nice job or whatever it's meant to do.
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You said we did a bad job of putting it together?
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But I did a horrible job, a horrible job.
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You did a terrific job.
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But he was doing a solid job because he had substance as well as style.
Fiction book (1999) -
The whole thing was a fantastic job of planning and secrecy.
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In reality, governments often do a poor job of enforcing contracts.
Academic text (1998) -
But as climate change progresses, those preserves may no longer do the job they were designed for.
Academic text (2004) -
Traditional notation does a poor job of representing atonal and microtonal music.
Academic text (1997)
Antonyms
Idioms
- Literature
A quality of staying calm for a long time despite great problems, like Job in the Bible
- Offensive
A joking way to say someone is not good enough to do something as a job
Compounds
A meeting where an employer asks someone who wants the job questions to see if they fit
- Offensive
A sexual act where one person uses a hand to touch a man's penis for pleasure
A situation when a person no longer has a job because of company problems or a weak economy
- 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
- Literature
A story from the Bible about a man who keeps his faith during great suffering
- 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
How Damaging
Surface Forms
Etymology
Job comes from an old word gobbet meaning 'a piece', and that led to uses meaning a strong action done to something. That's why to 'do a job on' something means to damage or change it badly, as if doing one rough piece of work.