job
Definitions
General English
General Science
- noun a task, set of tasks or work to be processed as a single unit
Banking
- noun an order being worked on
Computing
Construction
- Term commonly used to indicate the location of a construction project.
- An entire construction project or any component of a construction project.
Economics
- noun a position providing regular paid work
Electronics
- A unit of computer work consisting of multiple steps. A job, for instance, may encompass the use of various programs for several processes, which as a whole are treated as a unit.
- noun work that is done to earn money
Slang
- noun a crime. This widespread term occurs in expressions such as ‘pull a job’ and in specific forms such as ‘bank-job’, ‘safe-job’, etc. The word was first used in this sense in the 17th century, usually in the context of theft.
- noun a person, thing or action. An all-purpose term for a contraption, specimen or piece of handiwork.
Travel
- noun a task, a particular piece of work that has to be done
Origin & History of “job”
The origins of
job are uncertain. Its likeliest
source is an earlier and now obsolete
noun job which meant ‘piece’. It is
quite plausible
that job of work, literally ‘piece of work’,
could have become shortened to
job. But
where this earlier
job came
from is not known, so the
mystery remains
open.
