job : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply
  Job.
  

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• at a stipulated sum for the work, or for each piece of work done; distinguished from time work; as, the house was built by the job.

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• noun the job of a professional coach
  coaching.
  

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• verb destroy completely or make ugly or useless
  
  • The dog did a job on my pillow
  • The seamstress did a job on my wedding gown

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• noun a law passed by the United States Congress that created the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to prevent employees from being injured or contracting diseases in the course of their employment
  occupational safety and health act.
  

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• noun slang for masturbation
  wank; jacking off; jerking off.
  

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• noun a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions
  obloquy; defamation; calumniation; traducement; calumny.
  

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• noun some transgression committed with the assistance of someone trusted by the victim
  
  • the police decided that the crime was an inside job

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• noun a temporary action by workers to protest management decision or to make demands
  

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• noun an application for a job
  

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• noun an applicant who is being considered for a job
  

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• noun a program that is called to prepare each job to be run
  

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• noun description of the responsibilities associated with a given job
  

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• noun an interview to determine whether an applicant is suitable for a position of employment
  employment interview.
  

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• noun a miscellaneous collection of things sold together
  

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• a quantity of goods, usually miscellaneous, sold out of the regular course of trade, at a certain price for the whole; as, these articles were included in a job lot.

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• one who lest out horses and carriages for hire, as for family use. Eng.

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• one who does miscellaneous printing, esp. circulars, cards, billheads, etc.

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• noun someone whose comfort is actually discouraging
  

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• . (a) A false friend; a tactless or malicious person who, under pretense of sympathy, insinuates rebukes. (b) A boil . Colloq.

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• bad news. Carlyle.

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• noun hard pearly seeds of an Asiatic grass; often used as beads
  

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• (Bot.), a kind of grass (Coix Lacryma), with hard, shining, pearly grains.

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• noun a problem-oriented language used to describe job requirements to an operating system
  

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• noun a terminal designed for a particular application
  

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• noun cosmetic surgery to improve the appearance of your nose
  rhinoplasty.
  

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• miscellaneous work of a petty kind; occasional work, of various kinds, or for various people.

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• adjective satellite not regular or skilled
  
  • found only odd-job employment

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• noun a man skilled in various odd jobs and other small tasks
  handyman; jack of all trades.
  

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• adjective satellite actively engaged in paid work
  working.
  
  • the working population
  • the ratio of working men to unemployed
  • a working mother
  • robots can be on the job day and night

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• adjective relating to or associated with a job or employment
  
  • on-the-job training
  • on-the-job requirements

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• noun a long and elaborate misrepresentation
  

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• to arrange a plot. Slang

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