| job 1) A task, as in ‘Give us the tools and we will finish the job’. A jobbing builder or gardener carries out tasks for pay on a self-employed basis. 2) Paid employment. Jobs may be full- or part-time, permanent or temporary. The job market is the mainly informal system through which jobs are filled. 3) A racket or crime, as in ‘a put-up job’, or ‘jobbery’. |