The noun job has 13 senses (first 9 from tagged texts)
1. (963) occupation, business, job, line of work, line -- (the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money; "he's not in my line of business")
2. (280) job, task, chore -- (a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee; "estimates of the city's loss on that job ranged as high as a million dollars"; "the job of repairing the engine took several hours"; "the endless task of classifying the samples"; "the farmer's morning chores")
3. (88) job -- (the performance of a piece of work; "she did an outstanding job as Ophelia"; "he gave it up as a bad job")
4. (54) job -- (the responsibility to do something; "it is their job to print the truth")
5. (40) job -- (a workplace; as in the expression "on the job";)
6. (13) job -- (an object worked on; a result produced by working; "he held the job in his left hand and worked on it with his right")
7. (5) problem, job -- (a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved; "she and her husband are having problems"; "it is always a job to contact him"; "urban problems such as traffic congestion and smog")
8. (5) job -- (a damaging piece of work; "dry rot did the job of destroying the barn"; "the barber did a real job on my hair")
9. (1) caper, job -- (a crime (especially a robbery); "the gang pulled off a bank job in St. Louis")
10. Job -- (a Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him)
11. Job -- (any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing)
12. job -- ((computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit)
13. Job, Book of Job -- (a book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply)
Overview of verb job
The verb job has 4 senses (no senses from tagged texts)
1. job -- (profit privately from public office and official business)
2. subcontract, farm out, job -- (arranged for contracted work to be done by others)
3. job -- (work occasionally; "As a student I jobbed during the semester breaks")
4. speculate, job -- (invest at a risk; "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")