Job

Definition

job / dʒɒb / n ၁။ လစာရေသာ ပံုမွန္အလုပ္။ အလုပ္။ 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။ လုပ္ငန္း။ အလုပ္။ 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 ) တာဝန္။ အလုပ္။ It's not my job to lock up! ၄။ ( infml ) ထုတ္လုပ္ထားသည့္ပစၥည္း။ အရာ။ ဟာ။ ကိစၥ။ That car's a neat little job. ၅။ ( sl ) ျပစ္မႈ (အထူးသျဖင့္ခိုးမႈ)။ He got three years for a job he did in Leeds. ❏ do the job/ trick [ IDM ] ( infml ) အလုပ္ျဖစ္သည္။ This extra strong glue should do the job nicely. ❏ give sb/ sth up as a bad job [ IDM ] ( infml ) လက္ေလွ်ာ့ လိုက္သည္။ 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) ကံေကာင္းျခင္း။ အဆင္သင့္ျခင္း။ She's stopped smoking, and a good job too! ❍ It's a good job you were there to help. ❏ job creation n [U] အလုပ္လက္မဲ့မ်ားအတြက္ တမင္ တကာ အလုပ္ဖန္တီးေပးျခင္း။ a job-creation scheme. ❏ job description n လုပ္ငန္းတာဝန္သတ္မွတ္ခ်က္။ ❏ job-hunt v (usu in the continuous tenses) အလုပ္ ရွာသည္။ ❏ jobless adj အလုပ္လက္မဲ့။ The closure left 500 people jobless. ❏ the jobless n [pl v ] အလုပ္လက္မဲ့မ်ား။ training programmes for the jobless. joblessness n [U] ❏ job lot n (ေလွ်ာ့ေဈးျဖင့္) ဂြၽံေရာင္းျခင္း။ We bought the equipment as a job lot. ❏ job satisfaction n [U] လုပ္ငန္းခြင္ေက်နပ္မႈ။ ❏ jobs for the boys [ IDM ] ( infml ) ကိုယ့္လူကိုယ္ အလုပ္ခန္႔ျခင္း။ ❏ job-sharing n [U] အခ်ိန္ျပည့္ အလုပ္တစ္ခုကို အျခား အလုပ္သမားမ်ားႏွင့္ အလုပ္ခ်ိန္ႏွင့္လစာကို မွ်ေဝယူေသာ အစီအစဥ္။ ❏ just the job/ticket [ IDM ] ( infml approv ) တိုင္း၍ ရက္သည့္ ပကၠလာပဲ။ 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 ] လက္ရာေကာင္းလွသည္၊ ဖ်င္းလွသည္။ 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 ) အလုပ္ျပဳတ္ကိန္းဆိုက္မည့္ ကိစၥ။ Asking for an extra week's holiday would probably be more than my job's worth. ❏ on the job [ IDM ] အလုပ္လုပ္ရင္း။ လုပ္ငန္းခြင္။ 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).

Examples

1. [job as] : She has a job as a restaurant manager.
2. [apply for a job] : I’ve applied for several jobs without success.
3. [get a job] : Andy got a holiday job at a factory in Bristol.
4. [find a job] : Emma finally found a job in a bakery.
5. [offer someone a job] : My son has been offered a job in Tokyo.
6. [take a job] : I’ve taken a job at a hotel in the city centre.
7. [do a job] : She’s very experienced – she’s been doing the job for years.
8. I could never do your job!
9. [be in a job] : I’ve been in this job for five years now.
10. [leave your job] : Dan left his job after an argument with his boss.
11. [jobs go] : Over 2000 jobs will go in the shipbuilding industry.
12. [lose your job] : Many steelworkers are worried that they’ll lose their jobs.
13. [job losses] : The car industry has faced massive job losses.
14. [out of a job] : I could be out of a job if things don’t improve.
15. [create jobs] : The new venture will create over 1500 jobs in the area.
16. [job interview] : He’s attending a job interview this morning.
17. [job opportunities/prospects] : There are not many job opportunities in this part of the country.
18. [temporary/permanent job] : I’ve got a temporary job for six months.
19. [part-time/full-time job] : Many students have part-time jobs.
20. [top job] : She holds one of the top jobs in the industry.
21. The first job is to decide who to invite.
22. [the job of doing something] : No one wanted the job of painting the ceiling.
23. [do a job] : Our architects have done the job in record time.
24. [it is someone’s job to do something] : It’s my job to welcome new members to the club.
25. It’s the job of teachers to give their students confidence.
26. [take on a job] : When I took on the job
27. I didn’t know what it would involve.
28. A bank job
29. He’s bought one of those MP3 jobs.
30. Your scan is the third job in the queue.
31. The problem is that she is between jobs at the moment and hiring a lawyer is not on the cards.