Word

job, n.
(jobs)
freq. cnt. 123

the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
<noun.act> freq. cnt.: 99 freq. cnt.: 76 freq. cnt.: 13 freq. cnt.: 7 freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 1

business job line line of work occupation

sample sentences

"he's not in my line of business"

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

semantic pointers

hypernym

hyponym

confectionery sport farming, land game, biz career, vocation, calling work, employment appointment position, place, post, berth, spot, office, billet, situation treadmill, salt mine trade, craft profession metier, medium accounting, accountancy photography catering

a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee
<noun.act> freq. cnt.: 58 freq. cnt.: 36 freq. cnt.: 15 freq. cnt.: 7

chore job task

sample sentences

"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"
"the endless task of classifying the samples"
"the farmer's morning chores"

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

semantic pointers

hypernym

hyponym

ball-buster, ball-breaker stint scut work, shitwork

a workplace; as in the expression `on the job'
<noun.artifact> freq. cnt.: 4 freq. cnt.: 4

job

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

semantic pointers

hypernym

work, workplace

the performance of a piece of work
<noun.act> freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 2

job

sample sentences

"she did an outstanding job as Ophelia"
"he gave it up as a bad job"

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

semantic pointers

hypernym

the responsibility to do something
<noun.act> freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 2

job

sample sentences

"it is their job to print the truth"

semantic pointers

hypernym

responsibility, obligation, duty

an object worked on; a result produced by working
<noun.artifact> freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 2

job

sample sentences

"he held the job in his left hand and worked on it with his right"

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

semantic pointers

hypernym

product, production

a damaging piece of work
<noun.act> freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

job

sample sentences

"dry rot did the job of destroying the barn"
"the barber did a real job on my hair"

semantic pointers

hypernym

a crime (especially a robbery)
<noun.act>

caper job

sample sentences

"the gang pulled off a bank job in St. Louis"

semantic pointers

hypernym

(computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit
<noun.communication>

job

semantic pointers

domain of synset (topic)

computer science, computing

hypernym

application, application program, applications programme

a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved
<noun.state> freq. cnt.: 151 freq. cnt.: 151

job problem

sample sentences

"she and her husband are having problems"
"it is always a job to contact him"
"urban problems such as traffic congestion and smog"

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

problematical problematic

semantic pointers

hypernym

hyponym

race problem balance-of-payments problem