job

A photorealistic image of a busy person in a uniform holding various tools.
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A photorealistic image of a busy person in a uniform holding various tools.

The image depicts a person in a uniform holding tools, symbolizing a 'job' as work. The word 'busy' emphasizes the active nature of the depicted job. The style is 'photorealistic' for clear representation.

  1. noun — jobs
    1. A task.
      • I've got a job for you - could you wash the dishes?
      • And it's my job to take care of the skanks on the road that you bang.
    2. An economic role for which a person is paid.
      • That surgeon has a great job.
      • He's been out of a job since being made redundant in January.
      • I was looking for a job and then I found a job / And heaven knows I'm miserable now
      • Policing the relationship between government and business in a free society is difficult. Businesspeople have every right to lobby governments, and civil servants to take jobs in the private sector.
      • Here I am at my new job! Audio (US) (file)
    3. Plastic surgery.
      • He had a nose job.
    4. A sex act.
      • hand job
    5. A task, or series of tasks, carried out in batch mode (especially on a mainframe computer).
    6. A public transaction done for private profit; something performed ostensibly as a part of official duty, but really for private gain; a corrupt official business.
    7. A robbery or heist.
      • a bank job
    8. Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately.
    9. A thing or whatsit (often used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall).
      • Pass me that little job with the screw thread on it.
      • One of them was about nine years ago when I stood in white tie and tails beside a little blonde job (laughter and applause) down in front of the First Methodist Church of Birmingham, […]
    10. The police as a profession, act of policing, or an individual police officer.
      • He was ex-job, Beavis. Detective sergeant out of County, Banbury, retired in ‘59.
      • But there it was on the screen: The personal details of his old colleague from Kennington station in the late nineties.[…]She’s job. We used to work together.
      • I’m job, D.S Townsend. I have to report a missing person.
  2. verb — jobs; jobbing; jobbed
    1. To do odd jobs or occasional work for hire.
      • Authors of all work, to job for the season.
    2. To work as a jobber.
    3. To take the loss, usually in a demeaning or submissive manner.
    4. To buy and sell for profit, as securities; to speculate in.
    5. To subcontract a project or delivery in small portions to a number of contractors.
      • We wanted to sell a turnkey plant, but they jobbed out the contract to small firms.
    6. To seek private gain under pretence of public service; to turn public matters to private advantage.
      • And judges job, and bishops bite the town.
    7. To hire or let in periods of service.
      • to job a carriage
  3. verb — jobs; jobbing; jobbed
    1. To peck (of a bird); (more generally) to poke or prod (at, into).
    2. To pierce or poke (someone or something), typically with a sharp or pointed object; to stab.
      • He had ‘jobbed out’ the eye of one gentleman.
    3. To hit (someone) with a quick, sharp punch; to jab.
      • A stranger jobbed me in the mug so hard that I fell off my chair.
  4. noun — jobs
    1. A sudden thrust or stab; a jab or punch.
      • Fair dinkum, a man ought to give you a job in the b— face.
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