a good job Definition

job
noun

1. A person's regular paid employment.

Thesaurus: vocation, place, post, position, calling, career, pursuit, profession, metier, situation, livelihood.
2. A piece of work.

Thesaurus: task, duty, responsibility, mission, burden, assignment, brief, undertaking, project, errand, chore, deed, tour of duty.
3. A completed task.

Example: made a good job of the pruning
4. A function or responsibility.
5. colloq
A problem; difficulty.
Example: had a job finding it
6. A crime, especially a burglary.

Example: an inside job
7. An underhand scheme.

Example: a put-up job
8. colloq
A do, affair, business, etc.
Example: The wedding was a proper church job
9. colloq
A surgical operation, usually involving plastic surgery.
Example: a nose job
10. colloq
A manufactured product, or other object.
Example: smart little jobs, these calculators

verb jobbed, jobbing

intr
1. To do casual jobs.
tr & intr
2. To buy and sell (stocks) as a stockjobber; to act as stockjobber.
tr & intr
3. To bring something about by, or practise, jobbery.
4. To hire or let out something for a period or a job.

Idiom: a good job

colloq
Fortunate; lucky.
Example: It's a good job I was early

Idiom: do the job

To succeed in doing what is required.
Example: This new lock should do the job

Idiom: give something up as a bad job

To abandon a task, etc as impossible or not worthwhile.

Idiom: jobs for the boys

derog
Jobs given to or created for one's supporters and friends.

Idiom: just the job

Exactly what is required.

Idiom: make the best of a bad job

To do one's best in difficult circumstances.

Etymology: 16c.