job

• n. 仕事；職業
• vt. 契約する；顧客の代わりに売買する。
• vi.雑用をする
• n. （ヨブ）人名；（英語）Job；（フランス語、ポルトガル語）Jobe；（？-1605）ヨブ（ロシア語）ロシア正教会のモスクワ総主教。(ドイツ語、セルビア語、チェコ語、オランダ語、イタリア語）ヨブ。

語源は不明だが、おそらく中英語のgobbe, piece、語源はgobと同じ、またはchop, to chop、つまり切り落とす、からきていると思われる。後に一般化し、物、仕事、作業、対象物などを意味する。

jabと同じ語源を持つオノマトペからの可能性。

job

job: [16] The origins of job are uncertain. Its likeliest source is an earlier and now obsolete noun job which meant ‘piece’. It is quite plausible that job of work, literally ‘piece of work’, could have become shortened to job. But where this earlier job came from is not known, so the mystery remains open.

job (n.)

1550s, in phrase jobbe of worke "piece of work" (contrasted with continuous labor), of uncertain origin, perhaps a variant of gobbe "mass, lump" (c. 1400; see gob) via sense of "a cart-load." Sense of "work done for pay" first recorded 1650s. Thieves' slang sense of "theft, robbery, a planned crime" is from 1722. Printing sense is from 1795. Slang meaning "specimen, thing, person" is from 1927.

job. (1) A low mean lucrative busy affair. (2) Petty, piddling work; a piece of chance work. [Johnson's Dictionary]

On the job "hard at work" is from 1882. Job lot is from obsolete sense of "cartload, lump," which might also ultimately be from gob. Job security attested by 1954; job description by 1920; job-sharing by 1972.

Job

Biblical masc. proper name, from Hebrew Iyyobh, which according to some scholars is literally "hated, persecuted," from ayyabh "he was hostile to," related to ebhah "enmity." Others say it means "the penitent one."

job (v.)

1660s, "to buy and sell as a broker," from job (n.). Meaning "to cheat, betray" is from 1903. Related: Jobbed; jobbing.

1. He was hand-picked for this job by the Admiral.

彼は海軍の将校が心を込めて選んでこの仕事を担当した。

2.He was fired from his job after roughing up a colleague.

彼は同僚に乱暴をしたために除名された。

3.The public never had faith in his ability to handle the job .

このポストに適任する能力があるとは信じられなかった。

4.The continued bleakness of the American job market was blamed.

米国の雇用市場の低迷が続いていることが原因とされている。

5.It 's very dispiriting for anyone to be out of a job .

誰もが事業にくよくよしている。