to job
- verb
- /dʒɑb/
- UK
- During the summer, many students job in various roles to gain experience.
Examples
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You wanna job?
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She decided to job occasionally to earn extra money for her vacation.
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They job up an incredibly storage yard.
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Do you job?
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Wanna job?
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I often job for local businesses to help them with special projects.
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
Phrasal Verbs
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 Regular
Surface Forms
Etymology
Job comes from an old word gobbet meaning 'a piece', so the verb to job means to do small pieces of paid work now and then. In other words, to job is to work on short or occasional tasks for money.