job

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• transitive & intransitive verb To jab or make a jab.
• noun A jab.
• noun A regular activity performed in exchange for payment, especially as one's trade, occupation, or profession.
• noun A position of employment.
• noun A task that must be done.
• noun A specified duty or responsibility: synonym: task.
• noun Informal A difficult or strenuous task.
• noun A specific piece of work to be done for a set fee.
• noun The object to be worked on.
• noun Something resulting from or produced by work.
• noun An operation done to improve one's appearance, or the result of such an operation. Often used in combination.
• noun Computers A program application that may consist of several steps but is performed as a single logical unit.
• noun Informal A state of affairs.
• noun Informal A criminal act, especially a robbery.
• noun Informal An example of a specified type, especially of something made or constructed. Often used in combination.
• intransitive verb To work at odd jobs.
• intransitive verb To work by the piece.
• intransitive verb To act as a jobber.
• intransitive verb To purchase (merchandise) from manufacturers and sell it to retailers.
• intransitive verb To arrange for (contracted work) to be done in portions by others; subcontract.
• intransitive verb To transact (official business) dishonestly for private profit.
• idiom (do a job on) To damage, harm, or worsen.
• idiom (do a job on) To defecate on.
• idiom (on the job) Paying close attention; on the alert.
• idiom (on the job) At work; at one's place of business.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A sudden stab, prick, or thrust, as with anything pointed; a jab.
• noun A small piece of wood.
• To strike, stab, or punch, as with something pointed.
• To drive; force.
• To aim a blow; strike at something.
• To chide; reprimand.
• To let out in separate portions, an work among different contractors or workmen: often with out: as, to job out the building of a house.
• To let out or to hire by the week or month, as horses or carriages.
• To buy in large quantities, and sell to dealers in smaller lots: as, to job cotton; to job cigars. See jobber, 3.
• To deal in the public stocks on one's own account. See jobber.
• To work at jobs or at chance work.
• To let or to hire horses, carriages, etc., for occasional use.
• To execute a trust in such a manner as to make it subserve unjustly one's private ends; especially, to pervert public service to private advantage.
• noun A lump.
• noun A particular piece of work; something to be done; any undertaking of a defined or restricted character; also, an engagement for the performance of some specified work: something to do.
• noun In printing, specifically, a piece of work of the miscellaneous class, including posters, handbills, bill-heads, cards, circulars, small pamphlets, etc.
• noun An imposition; a trick.
• noun An undertaking so managed as to secure unearned profit or undue advantage; especially, a public duty or trust performed or conducted with a view to improper private gain; a perversion of trust for personal benefit in doing any work.
• noun Odd jobs, disconnected, irregular, or trivial pieces of work.
• Specifically— Assigned to a special use, as a horse let out or hired by the week or month.
• Bought or sold together; lumped together: used chiefly in the phrase job lot, a quantity of goods, either of a miscellaneous character, or of the same kind but of different qualities, conditions, sizes, etc., disposed of or bought as a single lot for a lump sum and at a comparatively low price.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• transitive verb To strike or stab with a pointed instrument.