job

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
job1

▶noun

• 1 a paid position of regular employment.

• 2 a task or piece of work.

  ■ a responsibility or duty.

  ■ informal a crime, especially a robbery.

  ■ Computing an operation or group of operations treated as a distinct unit.

• 3 informal a procedure to improve the appearance of something: a nose job.

• 4 informal a thing of a specified nature: the car was a fast job.

▶verb (jobs, jobbing, jobbed)

• 1 (usu. as adj. jobbing) do casual or occasional work.

• 2 buy and sell (stocks) as a broker-dealer, especially on a small scale.

• 3 N. Amer. informal cheat or betray.

• 4 archaic turn a public office or a position of trust to private advantage.

– phrases
be (or have) a job be or have a difficult task.
a good job informal, chiefly Brit. a fortunate fact or circumstance.
jobs for the boys Brit. the practice of giving paid employment to one's friends, supporters, or relations.
just the job Brit. informal exactly what is needed.
on the job

• 1 while working; at work.

• 2 Brit. informal engaged in sexual intercourse.

– derivatives
jobless adjective,
joblessness noun.

– origin C16: of unknown origin.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
job2 archaic

▶verb (jobs, jobbing, jobbed) prod or stab. ▶noun a prod or stab.

– origin ME: appar. symbolic (cf. jab).