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A task or duty.

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Used as a noun, listen here, it means: A task or duty. Used as a noun, listen here, it means: The central figure in an Old Testament parable of the righteous sufferer.

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  • We are all trying to learn how to do a better job.
  • It is their job to print the truth
  • Do your job, do your job .
  • Estimates of the city's loss on that job ranged as high as a million dollars
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