| 单词 | job |
| 释义 | job job /; AmE / noun, verb
■ noun [C]
DESK JOB, OFF-THE-JOB, ON-THE-JOB
1 work for which you receive regular payment: She applied for a job as director of marketing. Who is likely to get the top job at the bank? jobs in the auto industry He's been out of a job (= unemployed) for six months now. The plan involves about 10 000 job losses. Are you considering changing jobs? About 40 jobs will go (= be cut) at the call centre. MBA students should begin their job search early.
❖ to apply for/look for a job ◆ to find/get/have/keep/take a job ◆ to leave/lose/quit a job ◆ to offer sb/fill a job ◆ a full-time/part-time/permanent/steady/temporary job ◆ to create/cut/shed jobs ◆ job cuts/losses job offers/openings/opportunities
2 a particular task or piece of work: Fighting inflation is the bank's main job. Two men have been given the job of pushing up the company's sales and profits. They have done a couple of design jobs for us. Clients pay professional advisers by the hour, not by the job. Sorting these papers out is going to be a long job. You should have delegated the job to someone else. We were expected to do whatever it took to get the job done (= complete the work).
3 a responsibility or duty: The broker's job is to act in the best interests of their investors. It's not my job to lock up!
4 (IT ) an item of work which is processed by a computer as a single unit: The job can be processed overnight. SYN TASK
IDIOMS
do a good, great, bad, etc. job (on sth); make a good, bad, etc. job of sth to do sth well, badly, etc: They did a very professional job. The authors make an excellent job of summarizing their approach to management. We haven't done a very good job on the publicity for the show.
don't give up the day job used to tell sb in a humorous way that you do not think they are very good at sth they are doing that is not their real job
a job of work (BrE) (old-fashioned or formal) work that you are paid to do or that must be done: There was a job of work waiting for him that he was not looking forward to.
jobs for the boys (BrE) ( people use the expression jobs for the boys when they are criticizing the fact that sb in power has given work to friends or relatives more than your job's worth (to do sth) (BrE) (only used in spoken English) not worth doing because it is against the rules or because it might cause you to lose your job: It's more than my job's worth to tell you what happened in the meeting. on the job while doing a particular job: No sleeping on the job! on-the-job training ⇨ HACK noun, WALK verb WHICH WORD? job/career/position/post/vocation/work Your job is what you do in order to receive a regular income. The word is often used when describing how your work meets your personal or financial requirements: a boring/interesting/a well-paid job Work is an uncountable noun and is used to describe what you do in your job: What work do you do? • full-time/manual/skilled work. It is also often used when speaking about the relationship between your personal life and time spent working: the difficulties of balancing work and family Both job and work are used to describe the state of having work: to look for/find work/a job • to be out of work/a job (= not doing any paid work). A career is a series of jobs in a particular area of work, especially one for which you need a qualification or special training: a career in business/law. A vocation describes a career that you believe is particularly suitable for you, even though it may be difficult or badly paid: He found his vocation in teaching. Post and position are both fairly formal and are often found in advertisements. Post is often used about academic or government jobs: a teaching post. Position often refers to a job in a company with a lot of responsibility: a managerial/senior position ■ verb (-bb-) [no obj] to do work for different people that is not regular or permanent: He jobbed as a truck driver for some time. PHRASAL VERBS job sth out (especially AmE) to arrange for work to be done by another company rather than your own: Some of the work was jobbed out to other printers. SYN CONTRACT STH OUT |
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