Synonyms for jobs


Grammar : Noun
Spell : job
Phonetic Transcription : dÊ’É’b

Top 10 synonyms for jobs Other synonyms for the word jobs

Définition of jobs

Origin :
  • 1550s, in phrase jobbe of worke "piece of work" (contrasted with continuous labor), of uncertain origin, perhaps a variant of gobbe "mass, lump" (c.1400; see gob) via sense of "a cart-load." Sense of "work done for pay" first recorded 1650s. Thieves' slang sense of "theft, robbery, a planned crime" is from 1722. Printing sense is from 1795. Slang meaning "specimen, thing, person" is from 1927.
  • job. (1) A low mean lucrative busy affair. (2) Petty, piddling work; a piece of chance work. [Johnson's Dictionary]
  • On the job "hard at work" is from 1882. Job lot is from obsolete sense of "cartload, lump," which might also ultimately be from gob. Job security attested by 1954; job description by 1920; job-sharing by 1972.
  • noun employment
  • noun task
Example sentences :
  • Millions who still had jobs feared that they would lose them.
  • Extract from : « The Conquest of Fear » by Basil King
  • Millions who had lost their jobs began to fear penury and want.
  • Extract from : « The Conquest of Fear » by Basil King
  • To the fear of losing our jobs is added the fear of losing our lives.
  • Extract from : « The Conquest of Fear » by Basil King
  • He's found me four or five jobs with friends of his—like yourself.
  • Extract from : « The Fortune Hunter » by Louis Joseph Vance
  • You've missed all the millions of people here who depend on the place for their jobs and their lives.
  • Extract from : « The Harbor » by Ernest Poole
  • They don't like their jobs, with no day and no night, only steel walls and electric light!
  • Extract from : « The Harbor » by Ernest Poole
  • The three other workmen came over, leaving their jobs, to watch.
  • Extract from : « L'Assommoir » by Emile Zola
  • If that's so, every one of the Old Home House eleven was onto their jobs.
  • Extract from : « The Depot Master » by Joseph C. Lincoln
  • At the beginnin' of the next spring season both of 'em was round huntin' jobs.
  • Extract from : « The Depot Master » by Joseph C. Lincoln
  • Some of you have stuck to your jobs like men, in spite of the talk you've heard all about you, and I thank you.
  • Extract from : « The Vagrant Duke » by George Gibbs

Antonyms for jobs

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