1
- a paid position of regular employment职位, 工作岗位：
the scheme could create 200 jobs
该计划可能产生200个工作岗位
a part-time job.
兼职。
2
- a task or piece of work, especially one that is paid（尤指有酬的）工作, 任务：
she wants to be left alone to get on with the job
她想不受干扰, 继续干这件事
you did a good job of explaining.
你解释得很好。
2.1
- a responsibility or duty责任, 职责, 义务：
it's our job to find things out.
把情况调查清楚是我们的职责。
2.2
- in sing. informal a difficult task〈非正式〉棘手的活儿; 困难的任务：
we thought you'd have a job getting there.
我们以为你要到那儿是不容易的。
2.3
- with modifier informal a procedure to improve the appearance of something, especially an operation involving plastic surgery〈非正式〉（为改善外表而作的）修补, 修改; （尤指）外科整形手术：
she's had a nose job
她做了鼻子整形手术
someone had done a skilful paint job.
有人已把油漆活很熟练地干完了。
2.4
- with modifier informal a thing of a specified nature〈非正式〉（有某种特性的）东西：
the car was a blue malevolent-looking job.
这是辆外观凶神恶煞般的蓝色车。
2.5
- informal a crime, especially a robbery〈非正式〉犯罪行为, （尤指）抢劫：
a series of daring bank jobs.
一连串胆大妄为的银行劫案。
2.6
- Computing an operation or group of operations treated as a single and distinct unit【计算机】作业。
verb
jobbed, jobbing
1
- no obj. [usu. as adj. jobbing] do casual or occasional work打零工, 做杂活儿：
a jobbing builder.
打零工的建筑工人。
2
- with obj. buy and sell (stocks) as a broker-dealer, especially on a small scale（尤指经纪人小规模操作）买卖股票。
3
- with obj. N. Amer. informal cheat; betray〈北美, 非正式〉欺骗, 骗取; 出卖, 背叛。
4
- no obj. archaic turn a public office or a position of trust to private advantage〈古〉假公济私, 营私舞弊。
短语
big jobs
- Brit. informal a euphemistic way of referring to faeces or defecation〈英, 非正式〉〈婉〉粪便; 通便。
do the job
- informal achieve the required result〈非正式〉获得成功; 实现（要求的结果）, 完成：
a piece of board will do the job.
用一块木板就可以了。
give something up as a bad job
- informal decide that it is futile to devote further time or energy to something〈非正式〉（认为将白费力气而）放弃。
a good job
- informal, chiefly Brit. a fortunate fact or circumstance〈非正式, 主英〉好事, 幸运的事, 令人满意的状况：
it was a good job she hadn't brought the car.
她没买这辆汽车真运气。
jobs for the boys
- Brit. derogatory used in reference to the practice of giving paid employment to one's friends, supporters, or relations〈英, 贬〉为亲友安排肥缺。
just the job
- Brit. informal exactly what is needed〈英, 非正式〉正是想要的东西。
make the best of a bad job
- 见BEST.
on the job
1
- while working; at work工作时; 在干活。
1.1
- Brit. informal engaged in sexual intercourse〈英, 非正式〉在性交。
out of a job
- unemployed; redundant失业的; 被解雇的。
词源
mid 16th cent. (in sense 2 of the noun)： of unknown origin.
archaic <古>
(jobbed, jobbing)with obj.
1- prod or stab刺, 戳, 捅：
he prepared to job the huge brute.
他准备捅死那个大家伙。
1.1
- thrust (something pointed) at or into something（用尖物）刺进, 戳进, 插进, 挤进。
- an act of prodding, thrusting, or wrenching刺, 插, 挤; 猛扭。
词源
late Middle English: apparently symbolic of a brief forceful action （compare with JAB）.