jobs

The word “jobs” has 1 syllable: jobs

It's pronounced as /dʒɑːbz/


What is synonym and antonym for jobs?

In the thesaurus, “jobs” has 189 synonyms and 33 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for jobs along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for jobs

  • act
  • action
  • activities
  • activity
  • advances
  • affair
  • affairs
  • appointment
  • appointments
  • apprentices
  • assignment
  • assignments
  • assumes
  • bears
  • beasts
  • berth
  • berths
  • billet
  • billets
  • bothers
  • briefs
  • burden
  • burdens
  • business
  • businesses
  • calling
  • callings
  • capacities
  • capacity
  • care
  • career
  • careers
  • chares
  • charge
  • charges
  • chars
  • chore
  • chores
  • circuits
  • commission
  • commissions
  • commitments
  • compulsions
  • concern
  • concerns
  • connection
  • connections
  • constraints
  • contracts
  • contribution
  • craft
  • daily grind
  • deed
  • designations
  • details
  • devoir
  • drudgeries
  • duties
  • duty
  • effort
  • efforts
  • employments
  • employs
  • endeavors
  • engagement
  • engagements
  • engages
  • enlists
  • enterprise
  • enterprises
  • errand
  • errands
  • faculty
  • fees
  • function
  • functions
  • gig
  • gigs
  • grind
  • grinds
  • handicraft
  • hands
  • headaches
  • headhunts
  • heavy liftings
  • hires
  • involvements
  • killers
  • labors
  • lays on
  • lifeworks
  • line
  • lines
  • livelihood
  • livelihoods
  • livings
  • loads
  • lucubrations
  • matter
  • means
  • mission
  • missions
  • needs
  • niche
  • niches
  • nine-to-five
  • nominations
  • nuisances
  • obligation
  • obligations
  • occupation
  • occupations
  • office
  • offices
  • opening
  • operation
  • operations
  • participations
  • partners
  • parts
  • pays
  • place
  • places
  • pledges
  • position
  • positions
  • post
  • posting
  • postings
  • posts
  • practices
  • practises
  • profession
  • professions
  • project
  • projects
  • promises
  • promotes
  • province
  • purposes
  • pursuit
  • pursuits
  • racket
  • rackets
  • rat race
  • recruits
  • reemploys
  • reengages
  • rehires
  • requirements
  • responsibilities
  • responsibility
  • restraints
  • retains
  • role
  • roles
  • rounds
  • routes
  • scouts
  • services
  • situation
  • situations
  • spot
  • spots
  • stint
  • stints
  • strains
  • subcontracts
  • sweats
  • swindle
  • takes on
  • task
  • tasks
  • taskwork
  • thing
  • tour of duty
  • trade
  • trades
  • troubles
  • undertaking
  • undertakings
  • upgrades
  • uses
  • venture
  • vocation
  • vocations
  • weights
  • work
  • works

Antonyms for jobs

  • avocation
  • avocations
  • axes
  • breezes
  • cans
  • cinches
  • discharges
  • dismisses
  • disregard
  • duck soup
  • entertainment
  • fires
  • fun
  • furloughs
  • hobby
  • idleness
  • inability
  • inaction
  • inactivity
  • incompetence
  • irresponsibility
  • kid stuff
  • lays off
  • locks out
  • pastime
  • recreation
  • retreat
  • sacks
  • setups
  • snaps
  • surrender
  • unemployment
  • unemployments

Meanings of jobs

  • noun
    1. A task.
    2. An economic role for which a person is paid.
    3. (in noun compounds) Plastic surgery.
    4. A task, or series of tasks, carried out in batch mode (especially on a mainframe computer).
    5. 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. A thing (often used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall).
  • verb
    1. To do odd jobs or occasional work for hire.
    2. To work as a jobber.
    3. To take the loss.
    4. To buy and sell for profit, as securities; to speculate in.
    5. (often with out) To subcontract a project or delivery in small portions to a number of contractors.
    6. To seek private gain under pretence of public service; to turn public matters to private advantage.
    7. To strike or stab with a pointed instrument.
    8. To thrust in, as a pointed instrument.
    9. To hire or let in periods of service.

Example Sentences

  • The company is hiring for several new jobs in the marketing department.
  • Many people are looking for jobs after the recent layoffs.
  • The program aims to create jobs for recent graduates in the tech industry.
  • She has held various jobs throughout her career, each with different responsibilities.
  • The government announced new policies to improve jobs and reduce unemployment.

On this page you'll find 222 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to jobs, such as: act, action, activities, activity, advances, affair, affairs.

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games

  • action
  • aims
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  • amusement
  • appointments
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  • athletics
  • bailiwicks
  • ball
  • baronies
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  • berths
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  • callings
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  • championships
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  • collusions
  • compasses
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  • conspiracies
  • contest
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  • contrivances
  • counter-strategies
  • counterplans
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  • crafts
  • dead heats
  • decathlons
  • demesnes
  • departments
  • derbies
  • designs
  • devices
  • diagrams
  • dimensions
  • disciplines
  • disport
  • diversion
  • domains
  • drill
  • duel
  • duties
  • elements
  • employments
  • engagements
  • enterprises
  • event
  • events
  • exercise
  • exercises
  • extents
  • fiefdoms
  • fiefs
  • field days
  • fields
  • fight
  • finals
  • firmaments
  • formulae
  • formulas
  • frolic
  • frontiers
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  • fun
  • fun and games
  • functions
  • gaiety
  • gambits
  • game
  • game plans
  • gigs
  • ground plans
  • gymkhanas
  • handcrafts
  • handicrafts
  • heats
  • heptathlons
  • ideas
  • intentions
  • intents
  • jobs
  • joust
  • kens
  • kingdoms
  • layouts
  • lays
  • lifeworks
  • lines
  • livelihoods
  • livings
  • loads
  • maneuvers
  • maps
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  • match
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  • means
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  • occupations
  • offices
  • outings
  • pastime
  • patterns
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  • photo finishes
  • physical activity
  • picnic
  • places
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  • play
  • play-offs
  • pleasure
  • plots
  • policies
  • positions
  • posts
  • practice
  • precincts
  • procedures
  • professions
  • programs
  • projects
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  • provinces
  • purposes
  • pursuits
  • races
  • rackets
  • rallies
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  • realms
  • recipes
  • recreation
  • road maps
  • round-robins
  • rounds
  • rubbers
  • runoffs
  • runs
  • ruses
  • schemes
  • scopes
  • scrimmages
  • seesaws
  • semifinals
  • series
  • sets
  • setups
  • situations
  • skirmishes
  • specialties
  • specifications
  • specifics
  • spheres
  • sport
  • sports
  • stratagems
  • strategies
  • struggles
  • studies
  • sub-specialties
  • subfields
  • subjects
  • subspecialties
  • subterfuges
  • sudden deaths
  • sweep-stake
  • sweeps
  • sweepstakes
  • systems
  • tactics
  • tasks
  • techniques
  • terrains
  • territories
  • test
  • tilt
  • tournaments
  • tourney
  • tourneys
  • trades
  • triathlons
  • tricks
  • tugs-of-war
  • turfs
  • turves
  • tussles
  • ultramarathons
  • vocations
  • volleys
  • walks
  • ways
  • widths
  • workloads
  • workout
  • works

jobless

  • between jobs
  • collecting unemployment benefits
  • laid-off
  • on the dole
  • out of a job
  • out of work
  • subemployed
  • underemployed
  • unemployed
  • without employment
  • without gainful employment
  • workless

killers

  • assassin
  • assassins
  • bears
  • beasts
  • bothers
  • bravoes
  • bravos
  • burdens
  • butcher
  • butchers
  • chores
  • cut-throat
  • cutthroats
  • drudgeries
  • efforts
  • executioner
  • executioners
  • exterminator
  • grinds
  • gunperson
  • headaches
  • heavy liftings
  • hit men
  • hit person
  • homicides
  • hunter
  • jobs
  • labors
  • loads
  • lucubrations
  • manslayers
  • massacrers
  • murderers
  • murderesses
  • nuisances
  • slaughterers
  • slayer
  • slayers
  • strains
  • sweats
  • torpedoes
  • triggermen
  • troubles
  • weights

labors

  • abortions
  • accouchements
  • affairs
  • aftereffects
  • aftermaths
  • articles
  • attacks
  • attempts
  • bangs away
  • bears
  • beasts
  • birth pangs
  • bothers
  • burdens
  • by-products
  • byproducts
  • caesarean sections
  • cesarean sections
  • childbearings
  • childbeds
  • childbirths
  • chores
  • commodities
  • conclusions
  • confinements
  • consequences
  • contractions
  • corollaries
  • deliveries
  • derivatives
  • developments
  • digs in
  • dints
  • donkeyworks
  • drives
  • drudgeries
  • drudges
  • duties
  • effects
  • efforts
  • ekes out
  • elbow grease
  • endeavors
  • energies
  • entries
  • essays
  • exercises
  • exertions
  • exerts
  • expenditures
  • fags
  • fatigues
  • flings
  • forces
  • fruits
  • goes
  • goods
  • grinds
  • grubs
  • handcrafts
  • handicrafts
  • handiworks
  • headaches
  • heavy liftings
  • humps
  • hustles
  • issues
  • jobs
  • killers
  • knuckles down
  • lines
  • loads
  • lucubrations
  • lying-ins
  • lyings-in
  • merchandises
  • mights
  • miscarriages
  • moils
  • muscles
  • natural childbirths
  • nuisances
  • objects
  • obligations
  • offshoots
  • offspring
  • offsprings
  • outcomes
  • outgrowths
  • outputs
  • overexerts
  • overworks
  • pains
  • parturitions
  • passes
  • pitches in
  • plods
  • plows
  • plugs
  • powers
  • pregnancies
  • produces
  • productions
  • products
  • puissances
  • puts out
  • residuals
  • responsibilities
  • resultants
  • results
  • routines
  • scrabbles
  • scratches
  • sequels
  • sequences
  • shots
  • side effects
  • side reactions
  • slaveries
  • slaves
  • slogs
  • spadeworks
  • spin-offs
  • stabs
  • strains
  • strives
  • struggles
  • sweats
  • sweats blood
  • tediums
  • things
  • toils
  • travails
  • treadmills
  • trials
  • tries
  • troubles
  • trudges
  • tugs
  • upshots
  • wades
  • wares
  • weights
  • whacks
  • whiles
  • works
  • yields

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