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job(1) (iou) and asthmogenic (medicine)


job(1) (iou)



job noun1. M16.
[Origin unkn.]
A piece of work, esp. one done for hire or profit; spec. a small distinct piece of work done as part of one's occupation or profession or as a separate operation. Also job of work. M16.
M. Atwood I did this grudgingly, as I did most Jobs around the house.
b. A theft, robbery, or Other criminal act, esp. one arranged beforehand. Criminals' slang. E18.
Public Opinion Stolen property sufficient to connect the thief with several 'Jobs'.
c. Printing. A small piece of miscellaneous work, as the printing of posters, cards, or anything on a single sheet. L18.
A public service or position of trust turned to private or party advantage; a transaction in which duty or public interest is sacrificed for private or party advantage. M17.
Pope Who makes a Trust or Charity a Job.
b. Personal profit; private interest. M17-L18.
Something that has to be done, a transaction, a task; colloq. a difficult task. L17.
Browning 'Tis an ugly job: but soldiers obey commands. R. Baden-Powell My wounds sewn up and dressed, a job which took nearly four hours. Ulverston (Cumbria) News A complete re-roofing and paint job on South Lakeland district council's offices. Sunday (Calcutta) The Bombay Hospital did a commendable job in saving Dada's life.
b. A paid position of Employment; transf. a person's particular task or responsibility. M19.
D. Lessing Young women who had left 7 a week typing Jobs in London. Evening Telegraph (Grimsby) It is not our job to call off the Test.
c. = job lot below. M19.
d. A commission to back a racehorse; a horse on which such bets are placed. L19.
e. Of a manufactured item, esp. a motor vehicle or aircraft, or (joc.) a person, esp. a pretty girl: an (excellent) example of its type. slang. E20.
S. Bellow He drove a dairy truck, one of those electric Jobs. Glasgow Herald She hung towels over the..mirrors when she took a bath, convinced they were two-way Jobs.
A state of affairs, an occurrence, a business. Chiefly in bad job, good job below. colloq. L17.
An operation involving plastic surgery. Usu. with specifying word. colloq. M20.
breast job, face job, nose job, etc.
Phrases etc.: bad job (a) an unfavourable circumstance (make the best of a bad job: see BEST adjective); (b) a thing on which labour is spent in vain (esp. in give a thing up as a bad job). bob a job: see BOB noun6. brown job: see BROWN adjective. get on with the job proceed with one's work, continue with one's affairs. good job a fortunate fact or circumstance (that). have a job be hard put to it (to do). inside job: see INSIDE adjective. Jobs for the boys: see BOY noun. just the job colloq. exactly what is wanted, the very thing. make a clean job of: see CLEAN adjective. make a good job of, make a job of transact or manage successfully. odd job: see ODD adjective. on the job (a) hard at work, busy; committing a crime; euphem. engaged in sexual intercourse; (b) (of a racehorse) out to win and well backed. on-the-job adjective done or occurring while a person is at work. outside job: see OUTSIDE adjective. straight job: see STRAIGHT adjective1 & adverb1. the Devil's job, the Devil's own job something extremely difficult.
Attrib. & comb.: In the sense 'hired by the job or for a limited time', as job-coach, job-gardener, job horse, etc. Special combs., as job analysis analysis of the essential factors of a particular task or piece of work and the necessary qualifications of the person who is to perform it; job analyst a person who practises job analysis; jobcentre an Employment exchange displaying information about available Jobs; job club an organization providing support and practical help for the long-term unemployed in seeking work; job-control adjective (Computing) designating a language which enables a user to determine the tasks to be undertaken by the operating system; job creation the provision of new opportunities for paid Employment, esp. as part of a policy to provide work for the unemployed; job description a formal account of an employee's responsibilities; jobholder a person who holds a particular job; job-hopper a person who practises job-hopping; job-hopping the act or practice of changing from one job to another in quick succession; job horse Hist. a horse hired out by a jobmaster; job house a printing-house specializing in jobwork; job-hunt verb intrans. (colloq.) seek Employment; job-hunter colloq. a person who seeks Employment; job lot a miscellaneous group of articles bought together; derog. any miscellaneous group of things, persons, etc.; jobmaster Hist. a person who keeps a livery stable and hires out horses, harnesses, and carriages for any job; job-office = job-house above; job press a small press designed for job-printing; job-print, job-printing the printing of jobwork; job rotation the practice of moving employees between different tasks to promote experience and variety; job-share verb & noun (a) verb intrans. be employed or work under a job-sharing arrangement; (b) noun (an instance of) job-sharing; job-sharer a person who job-shares; job sharing a working arrangement by which a full-time job is done jointly by several part-time employees, who share the remuneration etc.; jobsheet a sheet on which are recorded details of a job that has been done; job shop (a) a workshop where small pieces of work are done; (b) = job-house above; job-type (special or ornamental) type used in jobwork; jobwork (a) work done and paid for by the job; piece-work; (b) the printing of posters, cards, or Other miscellaneous items.
jobbish adjective of the Nature of a job; characterized by jobbery: L18.
jobster noun = JOBBER L19.

asthmogenic (medicine)


asthmogenic


Causing asthma.