job

Sense 1 noun

the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money

he's not in my line of business

Sense 2 verb

profit privately from public office and official business

Sense 3 noun

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

Sense 4 verb

arranged for contracted work to be done by others

Sense 5 noun

a workplace; as in the expression

on the job

Sense 6 verb

work occasionally

As a student I jobbed during the semester breaks

Sense 7 noun

an object worked on; a result produced by working

he held the job in his left hand and worked on it with his right

Sense 8 verb

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

Sense 9 noun

the responsibility to do something

it is their job to print the truth

Sense 10 noun

the performance of a piece of work

she did an outstanding job as Ophelia

Sense 11 noun

a damaging piece of work

dry rot did the job of destroying the barn

Sense 12 noun

a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved

she and her husband are having problems

Sense 13 noun

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

Sense 14 noun

a crime (especially a robbery)

the gang pulled off a bank job in St. Louis