job
- noun
- /dʒɑb/
- UK
- The vandal did a real job on the front of the store, leaving broken glass everywhere.
And 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.
Fiction book (1999) -
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
- 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 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.