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job

noun

1 my job involves a lot of traveling:

position of employment, position, post, situation, place, appointment, posting, placement, day job;

occupation, profession, trade, career, work, field of work, line of work, line of business, means of livelihood, means of earning a living, walk of life, métier, pursuit, craft;

vocation, calling;

vacancy, opening;

Scottish way;

informal berth;

Australian, informal grip;

archaic employ.

2 a job that will take him three months to complete:

task, piece of work, assignment, project;

chore, errand;

undertaking, venture, operation, enterprise, activity, business, affair;

Military detail.

3 it's your job to protect her:

responsibility, duty, charge, concern, task;

role, function, contribution, capacity, mission, commission;

informal department;

British, informal pigeon;

dated office.

4 informal it was a job to get here on time:

difficult task, problem, trouble, struggle, strain, hard time, trial, bother;

informal headache, hassle, performance, pain, hard mountain to climb, hard row to hoe.

5 informal a series of daring bank jobs:

crime, felony;

raid, robbery, holdup, burglary, break-in, theft;

informal stickup, smash-and-grab (raid);

North American, informal heist.

□ just the job

British, informal

the very thing, just the thing, just right, exactly what's needed;

informal just what the doctor ordered, just the ticket;

Australian, informal just the glassy.

word links	job
vocational relating to a job

choose the right word	job, task, chore, duty
See task.