📒 work for which you receive regular payment
- I don't have a job at present.
- He's trying to get a job.
- I'm thinking of applying for a new job.
📒 a particular task or piece of work that you have to do
- I've got various jobs around the house to do.
- Sorting these papers out is going to be a long job.
- The builder has a couple of jobs on at the moment.
📒 a responsibility or duty
- He said he wouldn't do it because it wasn't his job.
- somebody's job to do something It's not my job to lock up!
- It's the job of the press to expose wrongdoing.
📒 a crime, especially stealing
- a bank job
- He got six months for that last job he did.
- an inside job (= done by somebody in the organization where the crime happens)
📒 a particular kind of thing
- It's real wood—not one of those plastic jobs.
📒 an item of work that is done by a computer as a single unit
- The job can be processed overnight.
📒 not paying enough attention to what you need to do
- They were asleep on the job as the financial crisis deepened.
- Let's hope the regulators are not asleep at the wheel.
- Somebody must have been asleep at the switch to allow this to happen.
📒 unemployed for a short time. People say ‘between jobs’ to avoid saying ‘unemployed’.
- He's between jobs at the moment so he's using the time to do some voluntary work.
📒 a very difficult or unpleasant job or time
- I've had a devil of a job finding you.
📒 to do something well, badly, etc.
- They did a very professional job.
- You've certainly made an excellent job of the kitchen (= for example, painting it).
- We haven’t done a very good job on the publicity for the show.
📒 to be effective or successful in doing what you want
- This extra strong glue should do the job.
- Try wedging it open—that should do the job.
📒 to cause somebody/yourself to lose their/your job because the role is no longer required
- Our aim as a charity is to help people so successfully that we do ourselves out of a job.
📒 to decide to stop trying to help somebody or to do something because there is no hope of success
📒 used to tell somebody that they have done well at something
📒 used to say that you are pleased about a situation or that somebody is lucky that something happened
- It's a good job you were there to help.
📒 to have difficulty doing something
- You'll have a job convincing them that you're right.
- He had a hard job to make himself heard.
- He'll have a tough job getting the team into shape in time.
📒 work that you are paid to do or that must be done
- There was a job of work waiting for him that he was not looking forward to.
📒 people use the expression jobs for the boys when they are criticizing the fact that somebody in power has given work to friends or relatives
📒 exactly what is needed in a particular situation
- That cup of tea was just the job.
📒 to accept a bad or difficult situation and do as well as you can
📒 not worth doing because it is against the rules or because it might cause you to lose your job
- It's more than my job's worth to let you in without a ticket.
📒 while doing a particular job
- No sleeping on the job!
- on-the-job training
📒 having sex
📒 to stop working in order to go on strike