meaning of jobss

1. A sudden thrust or stab; a jab.
2. A piece of chance or occasional work; any definite work undertaken in gross for a fixed price; as, he did the job for a thousand dollars.
3. A public transaction done for private profit; something performed ostensibly as a part of official duty, but really for private gain; a corrupt official business.
4. Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately.
5. A situation or opportunity of work; as, he lost his job.
6. To strike or stab with a pointed instrument.
7. To thrust in, as a pointed instrument.
8. To do or cause to be done by separate portions or lots; to sublet (work); as, to job a contract.
9. To buy and sell, as a broker; to purchase of importers or manufacturers for the purpose of selling to retailers; as, to job goods.
10. To hire or let by the job or for a period of service; as, to job a carriage.
11. To do chance work for hire; to work by the piece; to do petty work.
12. To seek private gain under pretense of public service; to turn public matters to private advantage.
13. To carry on the business of a jobber in merchandise or stocks.
14. The hero of the book of that name in the Old Testament; the typical patient man.
15. job system> All the activities involved in completing any project on a computer from start to finish. A job may involve several processes and several programs. This term is rather old fashioned and harks back to the days of batch processing where a user would submit his job as a deck of punched cards which would typically include source code interspersed with job control language instructions to guide the various phases of the job such as compilation, linking, execution and printing.
16. a damaging piece of work; "dry rot did the job of destroying the barn"; "the barber did a real job on my ">hair"

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