job
job is a valid 3-letter word worth 12 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
What does job mean?
A specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee.
“estimates of the city's loss on that job ranged as high as a million dollars”
“the job of repairing the engine took several hours”
An object worked on; a result produced by working.
“he held the job in his left hand and worked on it with his right”
Any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing.
A workplace; as in the expression `on the job'.
(computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit.
The performance of a piece of work.
“she did an outstanding job as Ophelia”
“he gave it up as a bad job”
The responsibility to do something.
“it is their job to print the truth”
A crime (especially a robbery).
“the gang pulled off a bank job in St. Louis”
The principal activity in your life that you do to earn money.
A state of difficulty that needs to be resolved.
“it is always a job to contact him”
A book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply.
A damaging piece of work.
“dry rot did the job of destroying the barn”
“the barber did a real job on my hair”
A Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him.
Profit privately from public office and official business.
Work occasionally.
“As a student I jobbed during the semester breaks”
Invest at a risk.
Arranged for contracted work to be done by others.
Anagrams of job
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