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Jobs:
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Job
Job (plural jobs) refers to a piece of work or a task. Specifically, it may
refer to
* the Activity:
o The activity of economic production, also called employment or labour.
o A scheduled and/or automated task for a computer in a batch processing
environment; see Job (software).
In these cases, it evolved from Middle English jobbe (piece) or gobbe,
(lump).[1]
* In the Bible, it refers to:
o The Book of Job (sometimes spelled Jobe), part of the Tanakh (or Old
Testament)
o Job (Biblical figure) (sometimes spelled Jobe), the main character of the
Book of Job
o One of the minor characters in the Book of Genesis
In these cases, it evolved from Hebrew: אִיּוֹב, Standard Iyyov Tiberian ʾIyyôḇ,
"God is the father".[2]
* Job or Jobs may also have the following meanings:
o Job: A Comedy of Justice, a novel by Robert A. Heinlein
o Job (novel), a novel by Joseph Roth
o Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Inc.
o Job ben Solomon
o Joseph-Désiré Job
* Used in Pop Culture
o Job (professional wrestling), to lose or lie down
o Jobs (Remnants), a major character from K. A. Applegate's "Remnants"
series
o La Job, a Quebec adaptation of the British cult TV series The Office
o Job (Still Life), the sociopathic, amoral, cave-dwelling "man-child" from
the Preston-Child novel "Still Life with Crows."
o The job system is a system of character classes used in some games of the
Final Fantasy video game series.
* Geography
o Job, Kentucky; the zip code is 41225
o Job, West Virginia; the zip code is 26274
"index.htm" Sources
1. ^ American Heritage Dictionary, Boston 2000: Job¹
2. ^ American Heritage Dictionary, Boston 2000: Job³
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