job

Reading level: medium

Estimated CEFR level: B1 — Intermediate

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
  2. noun a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee
  3. noun a workplace; as in the expression

Etymology

From the phrase jobbe of work (“piece of work”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from a variant of Middle English gobbe (“mass, lump”); or perhaps related to Middle English jobben (“to jab, thrust, peck”), or Middle English choppe (“piece, bargain”). More at gob, jab, chop.

In classic literature

Synonyms

occupation, business, line of work, line

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