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  Job \Job\ (j[o^]b), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Jobbed (j[o^]bd); p.
     pr. & vb. n. Jobbing.]
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     1. To strike or stab with a pointed instrument. --L'Estrange.
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     2. To thrust in, as a pointed instrument. --Moxon.
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     3. To do or cause to be done by separate portions or lots; to
        sublet (work); as, to job a contract.
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     4. (Com.) To buy and sell, as a broker; to purchase of
        importers or manufacturers for the purpose of selling to
        retailers; as, to job goods.
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     5. To hire or let by the job or for a period of service; as,
        to job a carriage. --Thackeray.
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  Job \Job\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Jobbed; p. pr. & vb. n.
     Jobbing.]
     1. To strike or stab with a pointed instrument. --L'Estrange.
  
     2. To thrust in, as a pointed instrument. --Moxon.
  
     3. To do or cause to be done by separate portions or lots; to
        sublet (work); as, to job a contract.

  jobbed
       See job

  job
       n 1: the principal activity in your life that you do to earn
            money; "he's not in my line of business" [syn: occupation,
             business, line of work, line]
       2: 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" [syn: task, chore]
       3: the performance of a piece of work; "she did an outstanding
          job as Ophelia"; "he gave it up as a bad job"
       4: the responsibility to do something; "it is their job to
          print the truth"
       5: a workplace; as in the expression "on the job";
       6: an object worked on; a result produced by working; "he held
          the job in his left hand and worked on it with his right"
       7: a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved; "she and
          her husband are having problems"; "it is always a job to
          contact him"; "urban problems such as traffic congestion
          and smog" [syn: problem]
       8: a damaging piece of work; "dry rot did the job of destroying
          the barn"; "the barber did a real job on my hair"
       9: a crime (especially a robbery); "the gang pulled off a bank
          job in St. Louis" [syn: caper]
       10: a Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith
           in God in spite of afflictions that tested him
       11: any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without
           despairing
       12: (computer science) a program application that may consist of
           several steps but is a single logical unit
       13: a book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God
           about his afflictions and God's reply [syn: Book of Job]
       v 1: profit privately from public office and official business
       2: arranged for contracted work to be done by others [syn: subcontract,
           farm out]
       3: work occasionally; "As a student I jobbed during the
          semester breaks"
       4: 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" [syn: speculate]
       [also: jobbing, jobbed]

  jobbed
     vb.
     (infl of en job  ed-form)

  jobbed
     vb.
     (infl of en job  ed-form)

  jobbed
     vb.
     (infl of en job  ed-form)

  jobbed
     vb.
     (infl of en job  ed-form)