Noun
1. the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money;
"he's not in my line of business"2. 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""the endless task of classifying the samples""the farmer's morning chores"3. the performance of a piece of work;
"she did an outstanding job as Ophelia""he gave it up as a bad job"4. the responsibility to do something;
"it is their job to print the truth"5. a workplace; as in the expression "on the job";
6. an object worked on; a result produced by working;
"he held the job in his left hand and worked on it with his right"7. a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved;
"she and her husband are having problems""it is always a job to contact him""urban problems such as traffic congestion and smog"8. a damaging piece of work;
"dry rot did the job of destroying the barn""the barber did a real job on my hair"9. a crime (especially a robbery);
"the gang pulled off a bank job in St. Louis"10. (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit