Lexipedia - Where words have meaning

hatchet

n. a small ax with a short handle used with one hand (usually to chop wood)

job

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

job

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

job

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

job

n. an object worked on; a result produced by working; "he held the job in his left hand and worked on it with his right"

job

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

Job

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

hatchet, tomahawk

n. weapon consisting of a fighting ax; used by North American Indians

caper, job

n. a crime (especially a robbery); "the gang pulled off a bank job in St. Louis"

job, task

n. a program that is running independently

work, job, employment

n. the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money; "he's not in my line of business"

job, task, chore

n. 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"

job

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

job

v. profit privately from public office and official business

job, speculate

v. 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"

job, subcontract, farm out

v. arranged for contracted work to be done by others

opening

n. a vacant or unobstructed space that is man-made; "they left a small opening for the cat at the bottom of the door"

occupation, vocation, occupational group

n. a body of people doing the same kind of work

errand

n. a short trip that is taken in the performance of a necessary task or mission

grind, drudgery, donkeywork

n. hard monotonous routine work

labor, labour, toil

n. productive work (especially physical work done for wages); "his labor did not require a great deal of skill"

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