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Synonyms for job
Synonyms for job: task, caper and business. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 3 synonyms for job
Interchangeable with job, one per sense
Audited under job's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one job carries in that sense.
- tasknoun, in the sense "a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee"
- capernoun, in the sense "a crime (especially a robbery)"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name job as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- businessbusiness is a noun in the sense "the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money"
two of these come from job's own entries in the bank, and one was audited from the other word's side of the pair. Both directions were read by a human, and only the sense quoted differs.
a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee
The job of repairing the engine took several hours.
job in 2 more sentences, same sense
- She finished her job of restocking the shelves before the store opened.
- Washing the dishes was his job every night after dinner.
How it behaves: Job in this sense often follows a possessive or definite article and pairs with verbs like do, finish, or have, as in do the job or finish the job.
The true synonym
task
Same sentence, swapped: The task of repairing the engine took several hours.
Close but different
The game shows these three beside the answer. Each is a real word with a real meaning and none of them fits the slot job is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- problem
- line
- part
a crime (especially a robbery)
The gang pulled off a bank job in St. Louis.
The true synonym
caper
Same sentence, swapped: The gang pulled off a bank caper in St. Louis.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for job in the sentence quoted.
- problem
- business
- rolling
Where job turns up in the game
job is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across two difficulty tiers. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in five other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
4 of the 5 puzzles where job is the trap
- carenoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is attention, in the sense "the work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something", and job is one of the three tiles that lose.
- cookverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is fake, in the sense "tamper, with the purpose of deception", so job is there to be ruled out.
- movenoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is motion, in the sense "the act of changing location from one place to another", and job is one of the three tiles that lose.
- problemnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is trouble, in the sense "a source of difficulty", and job is one of the three tiles that lose.
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The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so job reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. job carries 2 written reason lines, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.