transitive & intransitive verb . To jab or make a jab.

noun. A jab.

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noun. A regular activity performed in exchange for payment, especially as one's trade, occupation, or profession.

noun. A position of employment.

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noun. A task that must be done.

noun. A specified duty or responsibility: synonym: task.

noun. A difficult or strenuous task.

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noun. A specific piece of work to be done for a set fee.

noun. The object to be worked on.

noun. Something resulting from or produced by work.

noun. An operation done to improve one's appearance, or the result of such an operation. Often used in combination.

noun. A program application that may consist of several steps but is performed as a single logical unit.

noun. A state of affairs.

noun. A criminal act, especially a robbery.

noun. An example of a specified type, especially of something made or constructed. Often used in combination.

intransitive verb. To work at odd jobs.

intransitive verb. To work by the piece.

intransitive verb. To act as a jobber.

intransitive verb. To purchase (merchandise) from manufacturers and sell it to retailers.

intransitive verb. To arrange for (contracted work) to be done in portions by others; subcontract.

intransitive verb. To transact (official business) dishonestly for private profit.

idiom. (do a job on) To damage, harm, or worsen.

idiom. (do a job on) To defecate on.

idiom. (on the job) Paying close attention; on the alert.

idiom. (on the job) At work; at one's place of business.

noun. A sudden stab, prick, or thrust, as with anything pointed; a jab.

noun. A small piece of wood.

To strike, stab, or punch, as with something pointed.

To drive; force.

To aim a blow; strike at something.

To chide; reprimand.

To let out in separate portions, an work among different contractors or workmen: often with out: as, to job out the building of a house.

To let out or to hire by the week or month, as horses or carriages.

To buy in large quantities, and sell to dealers in smaller lots: as, to job cotton; to job cigars. See jobber, 3.

To deal in the public stocks on one's own account. See jobber.

To work at jobs or at chance work.

To let or to hire horses, carriages, etc., for occasional use.

To execute a trust in such a manner as to make it subserve unjustly one's private ends; especially, to pervert public service to private advantage.

noun. A lump.

noun. A particular piece of work; something to be done; any undertaking of a defined or restricted character; also, an engagement for the performance of some specified work: something to do.

noun. In printing, specifically, a piece of work of the miscellaneous class, including posters, handbills, bill-heads, cards, circulars, small pamphlets, etc.

noun. An imposition; a trick.

noun. An undertaking so managed as to secure unearned profit or undue advantage; especially, a public duty or trust performed or conducted with a view to improper private gain; a perversion of trust for personal benefit in doing any work.

noun. Odd jobs, disconnected, irregular, or trivial pieces of work.

Specifically— Assigned to a special use, as a horse let out or hired by the week or month.

Bought or sold together; lumped together: used chiefly in the phrase job lot, a quantity of goods, either of a miscellaneous character, or of the same kind but of different qualities, conditions, sizes, etc., disposed of or bought as a single lot for a lump sum and at a comparatively low price.

transitive verb. To strike or stab with a pointed instrument.

"By the way, emphasizing the ability to *** continue with a single health care insurer in moving from job to job*** is a gaping untapped market of import and would go a long way to address the financial problems, as well as to draw support."