Someone's job can be referred to in formal English as their position or post. When advertising or applying for a job, you usually use position or post.
In conversation, don't use 'position' or 'post'. Use job.
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Noun | 1. | ![]() activity - any specific behavior; "they avoided all recreational activity" confectionery - the occupation and skills of a confectioner sport - the occupation of athletes who compete for pay farming, land - agriculture considered as an occupation or way of life; "farming is a strenuous life"; "there's no work on the land any more" employment, work - the occupation for which you are paid; "he is looking for employment"; "a lot of people are out of work" appointment - the job to which you are (or hope to be) appointed; "he applied for an appointment in the treasury" berth, billet, post, situation, position, office, place, spot - a job in an organization; "he occupied a post in the treasury" craft, trade - the skilled practice of a practical occupation; "he learned his trade as an apprentice" profession - an occupation requiring special education (especially in the liberal arts or sciences) metier, medium - an occupation for which you are especially well suited; "in law he found his true metier" accountancy, accounting - the occupation of maintaining and auditing records and preparing financial reports for a business photography - the occupation of taking and printing photographs or making movies catering - providing food and services |
2. | ![]() duty - work that you are obliged to perform for moral or legal reasons; "the duties of the job" ball-breaker, ball-buster - a job or situation that is demanding and arduous and punishing; "Vietnam was a ball-breaker" stint - an individual's prescribed share of work; "her stint as a lifeguard exhausted her" scut work - trivial, unrewarding, tedious, dirty, and disagreeable chores; "the hospital hired him to do scut work" | |
3. | job - a workplace; as in the expression "on the job"; | |
4. | job - an object worked on; a result produced by working; "he held the job in his left hand and worked on it with his right" product, production - an artifact that has been created by someone or some process; "they improve their product every year"; "they export most of their agricultural production" | |
5. | job - the responsibility to do something; "it is their job to print the truth" duty, obligation, responsibility - the social force that binds you to the courses of action demanded by that force; "we must instill a sense of duty in our children"; "every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty"- John D.Rockefeller Jr | |
6. | job - the performance of a piece of work; "she did an outstanding job as Ophelia"; "he gave it up as a bad job" work - activity directed toward making or doing something; "she checked several points needing further work" | |
7. | job - a damaging piece of work; "dry rot did the job of destroying the barn"; "the barber did a real job on my hair" work - activity directed toward making or doing something; "she checked several points needing further work" | |
8. | ![]() difficulty - a condition or state of affairs almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring great effort to bear or overcome; "grappling with financial difficulties" race problem - a social and political problem caused by conflict between races occupying the same or adjacent regions balance-of-payments problem - an economic problem caused by payments for imports being greater than receipts for exports | |
9. | Job - a Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him | |
10. | Job - any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing unfortunate, unfortunate person - a person who suffers misfortune | |
11. | job - (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit computer science, computing - the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures application program, applications programme, application - a program that gives a computer instructions that provide the user with tools to accomplish a task; "he has tried several different word processing applications" | |
12. | Job - a book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply Old Testament - the collection of books comprising the sacred scripture of the Hebrews and recording their history as the chosen people; the first half of the Christian Bible | |
13. | job - a crime (especially a robbery); "the gang pulled off a bank job in St. Louis" robbery - larceny by threat of violence | |
Verb | 1. | job - profit privately from public office and official business |
2. | job - arranged for contracted work to be done by others | |
3. | job - work occasionally; "As a student I jobbed during the semester breaks" | |
4. | job - 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" bull - try to raise the price of stocks through speculative buying |