Job vs. Profession
Difference Between Job and Profession
Jobnoun
A regular activity performed in exchange for payment, especially as one's trade, occupation, or profession
Her job is doing drug research.Professionnoun
An occupation or career
"One of the highest compliments a child can pay a parent is to choose his or her profession" (Joan Nathan).Jobnoun
A position of employment
How many jobs are open at the factory?.Professionnoun
An occupation, such as law, medicine, or engineering, that requires considerable training and specialized study.
Jobnoun
A task that must be done
Let's finish this job before we start another.Professionnoun
The body of qualified persons in an occupation or field
members of the teaching profession.Jobnoun
A specified duty or responsibility
Your job is to watch the kids while we're away.Professionnoun
An act or instance of professing; a declaration.
Jobnoun
(Informal) A difficult or strenuous task
It's a real job getting people to help out at these events.Professionnoun
An avowal of faith or belief.
Jobnoun
A specific piece of work to be done for a set fee
an expensive repair job.Professionnoun
A faith or belief
believers of various professions.Jobnoun
The object to be worked on
Those overgrown shrubs are a big job.Professionnoun
A promise or vow made on entering a religious order.
She died only a few years after her profession.Jobnoun
Something resulting from or produced by work
I like the job they did on those shrubs.Professionnoun
A declaration of belief, faith or of one's opinion.
Despite his continued professions of innocence, the court eventually sentenced him to five years.Jobnoun
An operation done to improve one's appearance, or the result of such an operation. Often used in combination
a face job.Professionnoun
An occupation, trade, craft, or activity in which one has a professed expertise in a particular area; a job, especially one requiring a high level of skill or training.
My father was a barrister by profession.Jobnoun
(Computers) A program application that may consist of several steps but is performed as a single logical unit.
Professionnoun
The practitioners of such an occupation collectively.
His conduct is against the established practices of the legal profession.Jobnoun
(Informal) A state of affairs
Their marriage was a bad job from the start. It's a good job that we left early to avoid the traffic.Professionnoun
the body of people in a learned occupation;
the news spread rapidly through the medical communityJobnoun
(Informal) A criminal act, especially a robbery
a bank job.Professionnoun
an occupation requiring special education (especially in the liberal arts or sciences)
Jobnoun
(Informal) An example of a specified type, especially of something made or constructed. Often used in combination
a new building that is just another glass and steel job.a cowboy hat that is one of those ten-gallon jobs.Professionnoun
an open avowal (true or false) of some belief or opinion;
a profession of disagreementJobnoun
A jab.
Professionnoun
affirmation of acceptance of some religion or faith;
a profession of ChristianityJobnoun
See Table at Bible.
Jobverb
To work at odd jobs.
Jobverb
To work by the piece.
Jobverb
To act as a jobber.
Jobverb
To purchase (merchandise) from manufacturers and sell it to retailers.
Jobverb
To arrange for (contracted work) to be done in portions by others; subcontract.
Jobverb
To transact (official business) dishonestly for private profit.
Jobverb
To jab or make a jab.
Jobnoun
A task.
I've got a job for you - could you wash the dishes?A job half done is hardly done at all.Jobnoun
An economic role for which a person is paid.
That surgeon has a great job.He's been out of a job since being made redundant in January.Jobnoun
(in noun compounds) Plastic surgery.
He had had a nose job.Jobnoun
(computing) A task, or series of tasks, carried out in batch mode (especially on a mainframe computer).
Jobnoun
A sudden thrust or stab; a jab.
Jobnoun
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.
Jobnoun
Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately.
Jobnoun
(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.''Jobverb
(intransitive) To do odd jobs or occasional work for hire.
Jobverb
(intransitive) To work as a jobber.
Jobverb
To take the loss.
Jobverb
To buy and sell for profit, as securities; to speculate in.
Jobverb
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.Jobverb
(intransitive) To seek private gain under pretence of public service; to turn public matters to private advantage.
Jobverb
To strike or stab with a pointed instrument.
Jobverb
To thrust in, as a pointed instrument.
Jobverb
To hire or let in periods of service.
to job a carriageJobnoun
the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money;
he's not in my line of businessJobnoun
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 dollarsthe job of repairing the engine took several hoursthe endless task of classifying the samplesthe farmer's morning choresJobnoun
the performance of a piece of work;
she did an outstanding job as Opheliahe gave it up as a bad jobJobnoun
the responsibility to do something;
it is their job to print the truthJobnoun
a workplace; as in the expression
on the jobJobnoun
an object worked on; a result produced by working;
he held the job in his left hand and worked on it with his rightJobnoun
a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved;
she and her husband are having problemsit is always a job to contact himurban problems such as traffic congestion and smogJobnoun
a damaging piece of work;
dry rot did the job of destroying the barnthe barber did a real job on my hairJobnoun
a crime (especially a robbery);
the gang pulled off a bank job in St. LouisJobnoun
a Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him
Jobnoun
any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing
Jobnoun
(computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit
Jobnoun
a book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply
Jobverb
profit privately from public office and official business
Jobverb
arranged for contracted work to be done by others
Jobverb
work occasionally;
As a student I jobbed during the semester breaksJobverb
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
