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DictionaryEnglish - Myanmar
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job

/dʒɒb/

US pronunciation
American sound/dʒɒb/
job
Syllables
1 syllable
Stress
One strong syllable
Vowel
IPA vowel pattern
Ending
Clear final sound

US voice -> job

Myanmar meaning

(n) လစာရသော ပုံမှန်အလုပ်။ အလုပ်။ နေ့စဉ်အလုပ်။အလုပ်အကိုင်။ လုပ်ငန်းတာဝန်။

Full entry

job / dʒɒb / n

၁။ လစာရသော ပုံမှန်အလုပ်။ အလုပ်။ get a part-time job as a gardener ❍ a holiday job ❍ Thousands of workers lost their jobs when the factory closed. ❍ He's been out of a job (ie unemployed) for six months.
၂။ လုပ်ငန်း။ အလုပ်။ The shipyard is working on three different jobs (ie building three ships). ❍ do various jobs around the house ❍ Writing a book was a more difficult job than he'd thought. ❍ It was/ I had quite a job (ie a difficult task) finding this flat. See also ODD JOBS ❍ WORK n
၃။ (usu sing ) တာဝန်။ အလုပ်။ It's not my job to lock up!
၄။ (infml ) ထုတ်လုပ်ထားသည့်ပစ္စည်း။ အရာ။ ဟာ။ ကိစ္စ။ That car's a neat little job.
၅။ (sl ) ပြစ်မှု (အထူးသဖြင့်ခိုးမှု)။ He got three years for a job he did in Leeds.
❏ do the job/ trick [IDM ] (infml ) အလုပ်ဖြစ်သည်။ This extra strong glue should do the job nicely.
❏ give sb/ sth up as a bad job [IDM ] (infml ) လက်လျှော့ လိုက်သည်။ His parents have given him up as a bad job. ❍ After waiting over an hour for the bus she decided to give it up as a bad job.
❏ a good job [IDM ] (infml ) (used as a comment on actions or events) ကံကောင်းခြင်း။ အဆင်သင့်ခြင်း။ She's stopped smoking, and a good job too! ❍ It's a good job you were there to help.
❏ job creation n [U] အလုပ်လက်မဲ့များအတွက် တမင် တကာ အလုပ်ဖန်တီးပေးခြင်း။ a job-creation scheme.
❏ job description n လုပ်ငန်းတာဝန်သတ်မှတ်ချက်။
❏ job-hunt v (usu in the continuous tenses) အလုပ် ရှာသည်။
❏ jobless adj အလုပ်လက်မဲ့။ The closure left 500 people jobless.
❏ the jobless n [pl v ] အလုပ်လက်မဲ့များ။ training programmes for the jobless. joblessness n [U]
❏ job lot n (လျှော့ဈေးဖြင့်) ဂျွံရောင်းခြင်း။ We bought the equipment as a job lot.
❏ job satisfaction n [U] လုပ်ငန်းခွင်ကျေနပ်မှု။
❏ jobs for the boys [IDM ] (infml ) ကိုယ့်လူကိုယ် အလုပ်ခန့်ခြင်း။
❏ job-sharing n [U] အချိန်ပြည့် အလုပ်တစ်ခုကို အခြား အလုပ်သမားများနှင့် အလုပ်ချိန်နှင့်လစာကို မျှဝေယူသော အစီအစဉ်။
❏ just the job/ticket [IDM ] (infml approv ) တိုင်း၍ ရက်သည့် ပက္ကလာပဲ။ Thanks for lending me your lawnmower. It was just the job for the long grass.
❏ make a bad, excellent, good, poor, etc job of sth [IDM ] လက်ရာကောင်းလှသည်၊ ဖျင်းလှသည်။ You've certainly made an excellent job of the kitchen (eg decorating it).
❏ more than one's job's worth (to do sth) [IDM ] (Brit ) အလုပ်ပြုတ်ကိန်းဆိုက်မည့် ကိစ္စ။ Asking for an extra week's holiday would probably be more than my job's worth.
❏ on the job [IDM ] အလုပ်လုပ်ရင်း။ လုပ်ငန်းခွင်။ lie down/ go to sleep on the job (ie not work hard and continuously) ❍ on-the-job training (ie training given to workers at their place of work).

More examples
  • [job as] : She has a job as a restaurant manager.
  • [apply for a job] : I’ve applied for several jobs without success.
  • [get a job] : Andy got a holiday job at a factory in Bristol.
  • [find a job] : Emma finally found a job in a bakery.
  • [offer someone a job] : My son has been offered a job in Tokyo.
  • [take a job] : I’ve taken a job at a hotel in the city centre.
  • [do a job] : She’s very experienced – she’s been doing the job for years.
  • I could never do your job!
  • [be in a job] : I’ve been in this job for five years now.
  • [leave your job] : Dan left his job after an argument with his boss.
  • [jobs go] : Over 2000 jobs will go in the shipbuilding industry.
  • [lose your job] : Many steelworkers are worried that they’ll lose their jobs.
  • [job losses] : The car industry has faced massive job losses.
  • [out of a job] : I could be out of a job if things don’t improve.
  • [create jobs] : The new venture will create over 1500 jobs in the area.
  • [job interview] : He’s attending a job interview this morning.
  • [job opportunities/prospects] : There are not many job opportunities in this part of the country.
  • [temporary/permanent job] : I’ve got a temporary job for six months.
  • [part-time/full-time job] : Many students have part-time jobs.
  • [top job] : She holds one of the top jobs in the industry.
  • The first job is to decide who to invite.
  • [the job of doing something] : No one wanted the job of painting the ceiling.
  • [do a job] : Our architects have done the job in record time.
  • [it is someone’s job to do something] : It’s my job to welcome new members to the club.
Synonyms
work, occupation, trade, profession, career, employment, act, action, activity, affair, appointment, assignment, berth, billet, burden, business, calling, capacity, care, charge, chore, commission, concern, connection, contract, contribution, craft, daily grind, deed, devoir, duty, effort, engagement, enterprise, errand, faculty, farm out, function, gig, grind, handicraft, hire out, hired out, jobbing, line, livelihood, matter, means, mission, métier, niche, nine-to-five, obligation, office, opening, operation, place, position, post, posting, project, province, pursuit, racket, rat race, rent out, responsibility, role, situation, spot, stint, subcontract, sublet, swindle, task, taskwork, thing, tour of duty, undertaking, vacancy, venture, vocation
Antonyms
avocation, disregard, entertainment, fun, hobby, idleness, inability, inaction, inactivity, incompetence, irresponsibility, pastime, recreation, retreat, surrender, unemployment
Cross references
workoccupationtradeprofessioncareeremploymentactactionactivityaffairappointmentassignmentberthbilletburdenbusinesscallingcapacitycarechargechorecommissionconcernconnectioncontractcontributioncraftdaily grind
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