job
the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
How often you will meet it
Rank 1,843 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 9,841 times across 155,139 chapters — 0.005% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money also: occupation, business, line of work, line he's not in my line of business
- a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee also: task, chore estimates of the city's loss on that job ranged as high as a million dollarsthe job of repairing the engine took several hours
- a workplace; as in the expression `on the job'
- an object worked on; a result produced by working he held the job in his left hand and worked on it with his right
- the responsibility to do something it is their job to print the truth
- the performance of a piece of work she did an outstanding job as Opheliahe gave it up as a bad job
job in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Fancy taking money for a job of this kind!'
The Little Nugget · P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse · Chapter 1
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Mr. McEachern had made the best of a bad job.
The Intrusion of Jimmy · P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse · Chapter 1
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They were only hired out to the show by their white manager, and they've gone to another job.
The High School Boys' Canoe Club · H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock · Chapter 1
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But it takes two to a job of that sort, and Milly hung fire, much to the misery of young Bewes.
The Torch and Other Tales · Eden Phillpotts · Chapter 1
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I prefer the rifle: it makes a clean job of death, and does not prematurely stuff the bird with globules of lead.
In the Wilderness · Charles Dudley Warner · Chapter 1