Policing the relationship between government and business in a free society is difficult. Businesspeople have every right to lobby governments, and civil servants to takejobs in the private sector.
2000 August 6, “Easy Come, Easy Go”, inSex and the City, season 3, episode 9, spoken by Samantha:
You men have no idea what we're dealing with down there. Teeth placement, and jaw stress, and suction, and gag reflex, and all the while bobbing up and down, moaning and trying to breathe through our noses. Easy? Honey, they don't call it ajob for nothing.
(computing) Atask, or series of tasks, carried out inbatch mode (especially on a mainframe computer).
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.
2010, J. Lamar,Honor, Deception and Justice, page53:
This freak Vernon got the intelligence on the safejob and passed it on to some other freak, a guy that hears voices in his head and talks back to them.[…] We don't think [Vernon's squeeze] is in on the heist, but she apparently is in love with this creep who is laying the pipe in her trough!
Anyaffair orevent which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately.
(colloquial) Athing orwhatsit (often used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall).
Pass me that littlejob with the screw thread on it.
1936,Proceedings of the annual meeting of the American Warehousemen's Association, volume45, page376:
One of them was about nine years ago when I stood in white tie and tails beside a little blondejob (laughter and applause) down in front of the First Methodist Church of Birmingham,[…]
2018 February 11, Colin Dexter, Russell Lewis, 14:17 from the start, inEndeavour(Cartouche), season 5, episode 2 (TV series), spoken by DS Endeavour Morse (Shaun Evans):
“He was ex-job, Beavis. Detective sergeant out of County, Banbury, retired in ‘59.”
2018 July 24, Chris Merritt,Last Witness:A Gripping Crime Thriller You Won’t Be Able To Put Down:
But there it was on the screen: The personal details of his old colleague from Kennington station in the late nineties.[…]She’sjob. We used to work together.
2022 February 9, Daragh Carville, Richard Clark, Furquan Akhtar, 01:33 from the start, inThe Bay, season 3, episode 5, spoken by D.S Jenn Townsend (Marsha Thomason):
“I’mjob, D.S Townsend. I have to report a missing person.”
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Job is the default word for a job in Belgium. In the Netherlandsbaan 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 withyuppies.
