[
  {
    "word": "job",
    "phonetic": "/d\u0361\u0292\u0252b/",
    "phonetics": [
      {
        "text": "/d\u0361\u0292\u0252b/",
        "audio": "https://api.dictionaryapi.dev/media/pronunciations/en/job-uk.mp3",
        "sourceUrl": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9022053",
        "license": {
          "name": "BY 3.0 US",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us"
        }
      },
      {
        "text": "/d\u0361\u0292\u0251b/",
        "audio": "https://api.dictionaryapi.dev/media/pronunciations/en/job-us.mp3",
        "sourceUrl": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=949299",
        "license": {
          "name": "BY-SA 3.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
        }
      }
    ],
    "meanings": [
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "noun",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "A task.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "A job half done is hardly done at all."
          },
          {
            "definition": "An economic role for which a person is paid.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "He's been out of a job since being made redundant in January."
          },
          {
            "definition": "(in noun compounds) Plastic surgery.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "He had had a nose job."
          },
          {
            "definition": "A task, or series of tasks, carried out in batch mode (especially on a mainframe computer).",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A sudden thrust or stab; a jab.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "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.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A thing (often used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall).",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "Pass me that little job with the screw thread on it."
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [],
        "antonyms": []
      },
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "verb",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "To do odd jobs or occasional work for hire.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "To work as a jobber.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "To take the loss.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "To buy and sell for profit, as securities; to speculate in.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "(often with out) To subcontract a project or delivery in small portions to a number of contractors.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "We wanted to sell a turnkey plant, but they jobbed out the contract to small firms."
          },
          {
            "definition": "To seek private gain under pretence of public service; to turn public matters to private advantage.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "To strike or stab with a pointed instrument.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "To thrust in, as a pointed instrument.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "To hire or let in periods of service.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "to job a carriage"
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [],
        "antonyms": []
      }
    ],
    "license": {
      "name": "CC BY-SA 3.0",
      "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
    },
    "sourceUrls": [
      "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/job"
    ]
  }
]