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Her job is extremely challenging and stressful, but her job is arguably one of the most important jobs anyone could have (if you talked to her, she wouldn't even refer to it as a job - she has found her calling, and helping these kids is her passion - she rocks!).

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  1. noun A regular activity performed in exchange for payment, especially as one's trade, occupation, or profession.
  2. noun A position in which one is employed.
  3. noun A task that must be done: Washing the windows is not my job.
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  • Yet she looked happy, as if giving up the fight for her job was a relief. —  Lippman, Laura - [Tess Monaghan 02] - Charm City
  • His contact for the job was an old friend, but the mob could have easily gotten to him. —  Patterson, James - [Alex Cross 12] - Cross
  • The pool of highly qualified grads desperate for a job is as deep as it's ever been in recent years.
  • As frustrating as my job could be at times, I knew what I was doing was trivial compared to hers. —  Blog updates
  • "Looking for a job is absolutely a full time job," Check said. —  RNews - TOP STORIES
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business ·  task ·  plan ·  duty ·  position ·  career ·  team ·  game ·  performance ·  problem ·  today ·  tool

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job:   jobs
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Etymologies (7)

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  1. Perhaps from obsolete jobbe, piece, alteration of Middle English gobbe, lump; see gob1.
  2. Middle English jobben, of imitative origin.

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  1. Also in variant form jab, q. v.; from Middle English jobben, job or peck with the bill, as a bird; prob. assibilated from Irish and Gael, gob, the beak or bill of a bird: see gob and job.
  2. from job, v.
  3. Formerly also jobb; from Middle English jobbe; assibilated form of dial. gob, a portion, a lump: see gob and gobbet, and cf. job.
  4. from job, n.
  5. Also written jobe; from Job the patriarch, in allusion to the rebukes he received from his “comforters”.
 

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