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JOB/WORK

work that someone does regularly in order to earn money:

job – the particular activity that someone does regularly in order to earn money, especially when they are employed by someone else;

work – work that someone does regularly to earn money, either by working for an employer or working for themselves;

employment – a word used especially in an official context meaning the amount of work available or the fact of having a job;

the type of work that someone does:

profession – a type of work such as teaching, medicine, or law, for which you need special training and have to pass special examinations and which people usually regard with respect;

occupation – a word used especially in an official context meaning someone's usual full–time job;

business – the general area of work that you are involved in such as buying or selling a particular type of thing;

line of work/business – the type of work or job that you do;

trade – a type of job which you use your hands to do skilful work such as building houses, making furniture, or repairing cars;

career – the type of work that you do or wish to do for most of your working life, especially where this involves several similar jobs over a long period of time;

vocation – a job such as being a nurse, a priest, or a teacher, which you do because you have a strong feeling that you want to do it, especially in order to help other people, and not because you want to get a lot of money;

do/do for a living – what someone does or does for a living is their usual job;

livelihood – the work that you do in order to earn enough money to live on or the thing that provides the work for you to do;

a job that you have in addition to your main job:

sideline – a job that you do in addition to your main job, especially because it is something that you enjoy or are interested in;

on the side – if you do a job on the side you do it secretly or unofficially in addition to your main job;

to not have a job:

be out of work – to not have a job, especially for a long period of time;

unemployed – an unemployed person does not have a job;

jobless – a word used especially in newspaper and television reports: people who are jobless, especially a large group of people, do not have jobs;

be on the dole – a British expression meaning to be receiving money from the government because you do not have a job;

to give someone a job:

employ (hire in Am. E.) – to give a job;

hire – to pay someone money to do a particular job, especially for a short period of time;

engage – a formal British word meaning to give someone a job, especially at a low level in an organization;

appoint – to choose someone for a job, especially an important, permanent job;

recruit – to find people to work for a company or an organization;

take on – to give someone a particular job, especially one that might not be permanent, and especially when there is a group of people doing that job together;

make sb sth – to move someone to another job, usually a better, more important one within the same organization.