Definitions of job:

• noun:   a damaging piece of work

  Example: "Dry rot did the job of destroying the barn"

• noun:   the performance of a piece of work

  Example: "She did an outstanding job as Ophelia"

• noun:   the responsibility to do something

  Example: "It is their job to print the truth"

• noun:   a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee

  Example: "Estimates of the city's loss on that job ranged as high as a million dollars"

• noun:   a workplace

  Example: "As in the expression on the job"

• noun:   an object worked on; a result produced by working

  Example: "He held the job in his left hand and worked on it with his right"

• noun:   a book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply
• noun:   (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit
• noun:   any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing
• noun:   a Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him
• noun:   a crime (especially a robbery)

  Example: "The gang pulled off a bank job in St. Louis"

• noun:   a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved

  Example: "It is always a job to contact him"

• noun:   the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
• verb:   work occasionally

  Example: "As a student I jobbed during the semester breaks"

• verb:   profit privately from public office and official business
• verb:   invest at a risk
• verb:   arranged for contracted work to be done by others
• name:  A surname (rare: 1 in 100000 families; popularity rank in the U.S.: #13253)