Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Job \Job\ (j[o^]b), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Jobbed (j[o^]bd); p. pr. & vb. n. Jobbing.]
To strike or stab with a pointed instrument.
--L'Estrange.To thrust in, as a pointed instrument.
--Moxon.To do or cause to be done by separate portions or lots; to sublet (work); as, to job a contract.
(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.
To hire or let by the job or for a period of service; as, to job a carriage.
--Thackeray.
Jobbing \Job"bing\, a.
Doing chance work or odd jobs; as, a jobbing carpenter.
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Using opportunities of public service for private gain; as, a jobbing politician.
--London Sat. Rev.Jobbing house, a mercantile establishment which buys from importers, wholesalers or manufacturers, and sells to retailers. [U.S.]
Wiktionary
n. (rfdef: English) vb. (present participle of job English)
WordNet
See job
v. profit privately from public office and official business
arranged for contracted work to be done by others [syn: subcontract, farm out]
work occasionally; "As a student I jobbed during the semester breaks"
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]
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]
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]
the performance of a piece of work; "she did an outstanding job as Ophelia"; "he gave it up as a bad job"
the responsibility to do something; "it is their job to print the truth"
a workplace; as in the expression "on the 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"
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]
a damaging piece of work; "dry rot did the job of destroying the barn"; "the barber did a real job on my hair"
a crime (especially a robbery); "the gang pulled off a bank job in St. Louis" [syn: caper]
a Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him
any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing
(computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit
a book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply [syn: Book of Job]
Wikipedia
Jobbing or to job has the following meanings:
In the wholesale mercantile business refers to:- " Jobbing center", to buy wholesale products to sell to retailers.
- " Jobbing Printer", a printer producing work other than books and journals: hand bills, trade cards, etc.
- In professional wrestling, " jobbing" means to lose or lie down.
Usage examples of "jobbing".
She had no temple and was handled by a jobbing priestess in Cable Street, but Moist had a feeling that by the end of the day Anoia was destined for higher things.
You see, if I had a photoengraving plant of my own, I could do a good deal of outside jobbing as well, and the investment would pay ten per cent. But it takes money to make money.
The jobbing houses are retailing at wholesale prices, and we poor retailers stand no chance.
He controls shipping companies, and distilleries, race tracks and jobbing houses, wire services and loan companies.
Wait a second, Joe,' put in Ed Parmelee, who has a produce jobbing business.
I've got a little jobbing house there - in automotive parts - piston rings, gaskets and that sort of stuff.
Laborde declared forfeited rather than of the archbishop of Paris, who has had nothing to do in the creation or in the jobbing of the public funds?
It also had a hard-hitting editorial on Empire Loyalist lines that exactly suited the politics of the neighborhood, and, for good measure, it was stylishly made up each week (it was a weekly) by a man called Harling who was quite a dab at getting the most out of the old-fashioned type faces that were all our steam-age jobbing printers in Pimlico had in stock.