job

the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money

“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

“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”

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 Ophelia”

“he gave it up as a bad job”

profit privately from public office and official business

arranged for contracted work to be done by others

work occasionally

“As a student I jobbed during the semester breaks”

invest at a risk

“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”