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"
a book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing a Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him work occasionally; "As a student I jobbed during the semester breaks"
The single, relatively isolated unit of computational work performed on Frontier A job is divided into a set of tasks, with one or more tasks assigned to and processed on a single provider node
(Intelligent Agent User's Guide; search in this book) [definition #2] (Oracle Enterprise Manager Concepts Guide; search in this book)
or batch job is the basic execution object managed by the batch subsystem A job is a collection of related processes which is managed as a whole A job can often be thought of as a shell script In POSIX terms, a job is a session group A session is a processes group the member processes cannot leave
One UNIX command It is easy to be sloppy and use the terms job, process, and program interchangeably I do it and I'm sure you do, too Within UNIX documentation, though, the word "job" is usually used to mean one, and only one, command line Note that one command line can be complex For example: pic a ms | tbl | eqn | troff -msis one command, and hence one job, that is formed from four processes
The job of a particular person or thing is their duty or function. Their main job is to preserve health rather than treat illness Drinking a lot helps the kidneys do their job
A set of processes comprising a pipeline, and any processes descended from it, that are all in the same process group
Tasks, sub-tasks and task elements performed by an individual or team The higher level unit of analysis is often used in personal selection and assignment and work classification
a damaging piece of work; "dry rot did the job of destroying the barn"; "the barber did a real job on my hair" the performance of a piece of work; "she did an outstanding job as Ophelia"; "he gave it up as a bad job" the responsibility to do something; "it is their job to print the truth" 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 thesamples"; "the farmer's morning chores" a workplace; as in the expression "on the 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" a book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing a Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him work occasionally; "As a student I jobbed during the semester breaks" profit privately from public office and official business
A public transaction done for private profit; something performed ostensibly as a part of official duty, but really for private gain; a corrupt official business
the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money; "he's not in my line of business"
The Australian Bureau of Statistics defines job as: Any employment, full-time or part-time, lasting two weeks or more Source: ABS cat no 6220 0, Persons not in the labour force, September 1998, p 42