Synonyms for job

noun

• a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee
• a crime (especially a robbery)
• the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
• a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved
• a book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply
• a damaging piece of work
• a Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him
• an object worked on; a result produced by working
• any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing
• a workplace; as in the expression `on the job'
• (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit
• the performance of a piece of work
• the responsibility to do something

verb

• invest at a risk
• arranged for contracted work to be done by others
• profit privately from public office and official business
• work occasionally