job

n

1. work, undertaking, proceeding, business, matter at hand; task, chore, activity, exercise, performance; project, affair, venture, enterprise, effort; contribution, accomplishment, achievement, role, function, part.

2. concern, charge, duty, office, capacity; assignment, commission, trust, mission, errand; place, station, billet, berth; appointment, sinecure.

3. employment, occupation, livelihood, living, pur suit, vocation, calling, profession, field, metier, area, province; trade, craft.

4. transaction, deal, dealings, Inf. iron in the fire.

5. drudgery, toil, hack work, grind, daily grind.

6. graft, corruption, jobbery. See jobbery.

v

7. buy and sell, wholesale, distribute, dispense, consign, apportion, allocate.

8. contract, job out, subcontract, farm out, commission, consign, sublet, lease, relegate, send out; do odd jobs, hire oneself out, free-lance.

9. swindle, scheme, exploit, manipulate, maneuver, pettifog, machinate, gerrymander, gouge, line one's pockets, feather one's nest, Sl. pull wires or strings, Sl. porkbarrel.