different between job vs possie

English

Etymology

From the phrase jobbe of work (“piece of work”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from a variant of Middle English gobbe (“mass, lump”); or perhaps related to Middle English jobben (“to jab, thrust, peck”), or Middle English choppe (“piece, bargain”). More at gob, jab, chop.

Folk etymology linked the word to Job, the biblical character who suffered many misfortunes; for semantic development of misery and labor, compare Vulgar Latin *tripalium (“instrument of torture”) and its Romance descendants like Spanish trabajo and French travail (whence borrowed into English travail).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: j?b, IPA^(key): /d???b/
• (General American) enPR: j?b, IPA^(key): /d???b/
• Rhymes: -?b

Noun

job (plural jobs)

1. A task.
   • 1996, Cameron Crowe, Jerry Maguire

     And it's my job to take care of the skanks on the road that you bang.

2. An economic role for which a person is paid.
   • 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     Here I am at my new job! 

3. (in noun compounds) Plastic surgery.

4. (computing) A task, or series of tasks, carried out in batch mode (especially on a mainframe computer).
5. (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:) A sudden thrust or stab; a jab.
6. 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.
7. Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately.
8. (colloquial) A thing (often used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall).

   Pass me that little job with the screw thread on it.

Usage notes

• Adjectives often applied to "job": easy, hard, poor, good, great, excellent, decent, low-paying, steady, stable, secure, challenging, demanding, rewarding, boring, thankless, stressful, horrible, lousy, satisfying, industrial, educational, academic.

Translations

Verb

job (third-person singular simple present jobs, present participle jobbing, simple past and past participle jobbed)

1. (intransitive) To do odd jobs or occasional work for hire.
   • a. 1852, Thomas Moore, Literary Advertisement

     Authors of all work, to job for the season.

2. (intransitive) To work as a jobber.
3. (intransitive, professional wrestling slang) To take the loss.
4. (transitive, trading) To buy and sell for profit, as securities; to speculate in.
5. (transitive, often with out) To subcontract a project or delivery in small portions to a number of contractors.

   We wanted to sell a turnkey plant, but they jobbed out the contract to small firms.

6. (intransitive) To seek private gain under pretence of public service; to turn public matters to private advantage.
   • 1733, Alexander Pope, Epistle to Bathurst

     And judges job, and bishops bite the town.

7. To strike or stab with a pointed instrument.

   • a raven pitch'd upon him, and there sate, jobbing of the sore

8. To thrust in, as a pointed instrument.
   • 1683, Joseph Moxon, Mechanick Exercises

     And while the Tympan is coming , he slips his Left Hand Fingers from under the Frisket to the hither outer corner of it , as well to keep the Sheet close to the Tympan in its position , as to avoid the jobbing of the lower side of the Frisket against the small square shoulder

9. To hire or let in periods of service.
   • 1848, William M. Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 59,^[1]

     […] ...and a pair of handsome horses were jobbed, with which Jos drove about in state in the park...

Translations

Derived terms

See also

• employment
• work
• labour

Anagrams

• obj

Danish

Etymology

From English job.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?d?j?b?]

Noun

job n

1. job

Inflection

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English job.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??p/
• Hyphenation: job
• Rhymes: -?p

Noun

job f (plural jobs)

1. (chiefly Belgium) job

   Synonym: baan

Usage notes

Job is the default word for a job in Belgium. In the Netherlands baan is the default; however, job is sometimes used informally or in certain sectors (e.g. marketing), but it may also be considered pretentious due to an association with yuppies.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English job.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??b/

Noun

job m or f (plural jobs)

1. (informal) job (employment role)
2. (Quebec, Louisiana, informal) work

Usage notes

• This term is feminine in Quebec and some parts of Louisiana and masculine elsewhere.

Synonyms

• (informal) boulot

Further reading

• “job” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English job.

Noun

job m (invariable)

1. job (employment role, computing task)

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English job.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d??bi/
• (Rarely) IPA^(key): /?d??b/

Noun

job m (plural jobs)

1. (computing) job (task carried out in batch mode)

English

Alternative forms

• pozzy

Etymology

From position +? -ie (“diminutive suffix”).

Pronunciation

• /?p?zi/, p?zi
• Rhymes: -?zi

Noun

possie (plural possies)

1. (Australia, New Zealand, military slang, Digger slang) A firing position.
2. (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) A position or place, especially one that is advantageous.
   • 1984, Garrie Hutchinson, A Practice Game at the Old Home Ground, from From the Outer, reprinted 2001, David Headon (editor), The Best Ever Australian Sports Writing: A 200 Year Collection, page 289,

     The fans seem happy to be back, finding their formerly favourite possies in the stands, or around the strangely sunken perimeter fence.

   • 1998, Business Review Weekly, Volume 20, Issues 47-49, page 102,

     Of course, it helps if you are very rich and regularly pay more than $40,000 for a couture outfit to be guaranteed of a near-front-row possie at the bi-annual parades (winter and summer collections).

   • 2009, Andrew Bain, Ethan Gelber, Cycling Australia, Lonely Planet, page 346,

     It?s in a good people-watching possie and if you have an early dinner between 3pm and 7pm you get a 40% discount.

Anagrams

• poises, posies