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Results for: "job"

Translating from English to Yiddish

Translations:

job — economic role for which a person is paid
→ שטעלע (shtele) f
job — task, piece of work
→ מלאָכה (meloche) f

Additional Definitions (WordNet):


NOUN (13)

1. the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money;
- Example: "he's not in my line of business"
[syn: occupation, business, job, line of work, line]

2. 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"
- Example: "the job of repairing the engine took several hours"
- Example: "the endless task of classifying the samples"
- Example: "the farmer's morning chores"
[syn: job, task, chore]

3. a workplace; as in the expression "on the job";;

4. 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"

5. the responsibility to do something;
- Example: "it is their job to print the truth"

6. the performance of a piece of work;
- Example: "she did an outstanding job as Ophelia"
- Example: "he gave it up as a bad job"

7. a damaging piece of work;
- Example: "dry rot did the job of destroying the barn"
- Example: "the barber did a real job on my hair"

8. a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved;
- Example: "she and her husband are having problems"
- Example: "it is always a job to contact him"
- Example: "urban problems such as traffic congestion and smog"
[syn: problem, job]

9. a Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him;

10. any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing;

11. (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit;

12. a book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply;
[syn: Job, Book of Job]

13. a crime (especially a robbery);
- Example: "the gang pulled off a bank job in St. Louis"
[syn: caper, job]


VERB (4)

1. profit privately from public office and official business;

2. arranged for contracted work to be done by others;
[syn: subcontract, farm out, job]

3. work occasionally;
- Example: "As a student I jobbed during the semester breaks"

4. invest at a risk;
- Example: "I bought this house not because I want to live in it but to sell it later at a good price, so I am speculating"
[syn: speculate, job]