What is "jobbed"

Job \Job\ (j[o^]b), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Jobbed (j[o^]bd); p. pr. & vb. n. Jobbing.]

1. To strike or stab with a pointed instrument.
   --L'Estrange.

2. To thrust in, as a pointed instrument.
   --Moxon.

3. To do or cause to be done by separate portions or lots; to sublet (work); as, to job a contract.

4. (Com.) To buy and sell, as a broker; to purchase of importers or manufacturers for the purpose of selling to retailers; as, to job goods.

5. To hire or let by the job or for a period of service; as, to job a carriage.
   --Thackeray.

vb. (en-pastjob)

See job

1. v. profit privately from public office and official business

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

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

4. 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" [syn: speculate]

5. [also: jobbing, jobbed]

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

2. 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" [syn: task, chore]

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

4. the responsibility to do something; "it is their job to print the truth"

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

6. 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. 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" [syn: problem]

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

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

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

11. any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing

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

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

14. [also: jobbing, jobbed]