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名詞

1

（＝職業）a trade; an occupation; a profession:（手職は） a handicraft

用例

• 君は何職か
  What is your trade?
  What is your profession?
  What profession do you follow?

• 彼はきまった職がない
  He has no regular occupation.
• 何を職とする
  to profess （arms, law, medicine, etc.）
• 彼は法律を職としている
  He professes law
  He is a lawyer by profession.
• 医を職としている
  He professes medicine
  He is a physician by profession.
• 大工を職としている
  He is a carpenter by trade.
• 職を覚える
  to learn a trade
• お前はなにか職を覚えておかないと困るぞ
  It will go hard with you if you do not learn some trade.
• 彼は手に職がある
  He knows a handicraft.
• 手に職のある者は食いはぐれが無い
  A man who knows a handicraft, is sure of his salt.

2

（＝官職）an office; a post:（奉職は）service:（職務は）duties:（地位は）a position; a situation; a place:（任は）trust

用例

• 官途に職を奉じている
  He holds a post under government
  He is in government service.

• 職に就く
  to take office―assume an office―enter upon one's office―be installed in one's office―be inaugurated
• 彼女は家庭教師の職に就いた
  She was installed as governess.
• 職を勤める
  to hold an office―fill post
• 彼は幹事の職を勤めている
  He holds the office of manager.
• 職を免ずる、職を解く
  to relieve one of one's office―release one from one's office―dismiss one from office―remove one from office
• 彼は願いによって職を免ぜられた
  He has been relieved of his office at his own request.
• 職を辞す
  to resign （one's office）―resign （one's post）
• 職をなげうつ
  to throw up one's office―fling up one's situation
• 職をなげうつこと弊履を捨つるが如し
  He throws up his office as if he were throwing away an old hat.
• 職に殉ずる
  to die at one's post
• 職に殉ずるほど名誉の死は無い
  Nothing can be more glorious than to die at one's post.

3

（＝仕事）work; employment; a job:（地位は）a position; a situation; a place; a berth

用例

• 彼は職を求めている
  He seeks for employment
  He is looking out for a job.

• 職を求めるために上京したのだ
  He has come to town in quest of employment.
• 職を求む（広告文）
  Wanted a situation.
• 職を失う、職に離れる
  to be thrown out of employment―thrown out of work
• 彼は職に離れている
  He is out of employment―out of work―out of collar.
• 職に離れてぶらぶらしている
  He is at a loose end.
• 職を失って困っている
  He is badly off for employment.
• 多くの職工が職を失っている
  Many factory hands are out （of employment）.
• 不景気のために職を失う者がたくさんある
  The bad times have thrown many people out of employment.
• 職を失った者（失業者）
  the unemployed
• 職を得る
  to obtain employment―find work―get a job
• 彼は僕に職を得てくれた
  He has found me work―procured me a position―got me a berth―put me in the way of getting my living.