job|hold|er

job|hold|er
job|hold|er «JOB HOHL duhr», noun.
1. a person regularly employed: »

Most of these taxpayers would receive their benefit via reduced withholding taxes, which means that the average jobholder would find himself with about $1.60 more in his paycheck each week (Wall Street Journal).

2. an employee of the United States government.

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  • job — n. task 1) to do a job 2) to take on a job 3) a backbreaking; difficult, hard job 4) odd jobs (he does odd jobs) 5) a job to + inf. (it was quite a job to find him = it was quite a job finding him = we had quite a job finding him) employment 6)… …   Combinatory dictionary

  • hold — hold1 verb (past and past participle held) 1》 grasp, carry, or support. 2》 keep in a specified position: I held the door open for him.     ↘remain secure or intact: the boat s anchor would not hold. 3》 keep or detain.     ↘have in one s… …   English new terms dictionary

  • job — noun WORK 1 (C) the regular paid work that you do for an employer: get/find a job (as sth): Eventually, Mary got a job as a waitress. | take a job (=accept a job that is offered to you): I was so desperate that I took the first job that came… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • hold something down — informal succeed in keeping a job. → hold …   English new terms dictionary

  • Job — • One of the books of the Old Testament, and the chief personage in it Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Job     Job     † …   Catholic encyclopedia

  • Job-Netz — Job Netze sind eine leistungsfähige Möglichkeit des JES3, mehrere Jobs parallel ablaufen zu lassen, die Ausführung aber vom Beenden anderer Jobs abhängig zu machen. Theoretisches Beispiel In dem folgenden Beispiel repräsentieren nebeneinander… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • JOB, BOOK OF — (named for its hero (Heb. אִיּוֹב), ancient South Arabian and Thamudic yʾb; Old Babylonian Ayyābum, Tell el Amarna tablet, no. 256, line 6, A ia ab; either from yʾb, to bear ill will or compounded of ay where? and ʾab (divine) father ), one of… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

  • job — W1S1 [dʒɔb US dʒa:b] n ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(work)¦ 2¦(duty)¦ 3¦(something you must do)¦ 4 on the job 5 I m only/just doing my job 6 it s more than my job s worth 7 do the job 8 have a job doing something/have a job to do something 9 do a job on… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • Job's Daughters International — is a Masonic sponsored youth organization for girls aged 10 to 20. The organization is commonly referred to as simply Job s Daughters or Jobies, and is sometimes abbreviated and referred to as JDI (or IOJD, the original initialism).Job s… …   Wikipedia

  • hold — hold1 [hōld] vt. held, holding [ME holden < Anglian OE haldan (WS healdan), akin to Ger halten, Goth haldan, to tend sheep < IE base * kel , to drive, incite to action > Gr kelēs, swift horse, L celer, swift: prob. sense development:… …   English World dictionary

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