What is the meaning of Job?

noun

• The principal activity in your life that you do to earn money.
  • usage: "he's not in my line of business"
  • synonyms: occupation, business, line of work, line
• A specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee.
  • usage: "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"
  • synonyms: task, chore
• (n.) ()
• An object worked on; a result produced by working.
  • usage: "he held the job in his left hand and worked on it with his right"
• The responsibility to do something.
  • usage: "it is their job to print the truth"
• The performance of a piece of work.
  • usage: "she did an outstanding job as Ophelia"; "he gave it up as a bad job"
• A damaging piece of work.
  • usage: "dry rot did the job of destroying the barn"; "the barber did a real job on my hair"
• A state of difficulty that needs to be resolved.
  • usage: "she and her husband are having problems"; "it is always a job to contact him"; "urban problems such as traffic congestion and smog"
  • synonyms: problem
• A Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him.
• Any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing.
• Computer science. ( a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit)
• A book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply.
  • synonyms: Book of Job
• A crime (especially a robbery. )
  • usage: "the gang pulled off a bank job in St. Louis"
  • synonyms: caper

verb

• Profit privately from public office and official business.
• Arranged for contracted work to be done by others.
  • synonyms: subcontract, farm out
• Work occasionally.
  • usage: "As a student I jobbed during the semester breaks"
• Invest at a risk.
  • usage: "I bought this house not because I want to live in it but to sell it later at a good price, so I am speculating"
  • synonyms: speculate