jobとは

発音

• (Received 発音, General American) enPR: jäb, jŏb, IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɒb/, /d͡ʒɔb/
• 韻: -ɒb, -ɔb

名詞

job (複数形 jobs)

1. A task.

   I've got a job for you - could you wash the dishes?

   A job half done is hardly done at all.

   • 1996, Tom Cruise in the movie Jerry Maguire

     And it's my job to take care of the skanks on the road that you bang.

2. An economic role for which a person is paid.

   That surgeon has a great job.

   He's been out of a job since being made redundant in January.

   • 2013 August 10, Schumpeter, “Cronies and capitols”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:

     Policing the relationship between government and business in a free society is difficult. Businesspeople have every right to lobby governments, and civil servants to take jobs in the private sector.

3. (in noun compounds) Plastic surgery.

   He had had a nose job.

4. (computing) A task, or series of tasks, carried out in batch mode (especially on a mainframe computer).
5. (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought): A sudden thrust or stab; a jab.
6. A public transaction done for private profit; something performed ostensibly as a part of official duty, but really for private gain; a corrupt official business.
7. Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately.
8. A thing (often used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall).

使用する際の注意点

• Adjectives often applied to "job": easy, hard, poor, good, great, excellent, decent, low-paying, steady, stable, secure, challenging, demanding, rewarding, boring, thankless, stressful, horrible, lousy, satisfying, industrial, educational, academic.

動詞

job (三人称単数 現在形 jobs, 現在分詞 jobbing, 過去形および過去分詞形 jobbed)

1. (intransitive) To do odd jobs or occasional work for hire.
   • Moore

     Authors of all work, to job for the season.

2. (intransitive) To work as a jobber.
3. (intransitive, professional wrestling slang) To take the loss.
4. (transitive, trading) To buy and sell for profit, as securities; to speculate in.
5. (transitive, often with out) To subcontract a project or delivery in small portions to a number of contractors.

   We wanted to sell a turnkey plant, but they jobbed out the contract to small firms.

6. (intransitive) To seek private gain under pretence of public service; to turn public matters to private advantage.
   • Alexander Pope

     And judges job, and bishops bite the town.

7. To strike or stab with a pointed instrument.

   (Can we find かつ add a quotation of L'Estrange to this entry?)

8. To thrust in, as a pointed instrument.

   (Can we find かつ add a quotation of Moxon to this entry?)

9. To hire or let in periods of service.

   to job a carriage

   (Can we find かつ add a quotation of Thackeray to this entry?)

派生語

参考

• employment
• work
• labour

アナグラム

• obj