Job vs. Mob — What's the Difference?

A job, employment, work or occupation, is a person's role in society. More specifically, a job is an activity, often regular and often performed in exchange for payment ("for a living").

A large and often disorderly crowd. ]

A regular activity performed in exchange for payment, especially as one's trade, occupation, or profession

A large or disorderly group of people; especially one bent on riotous or destructive action.

A position of employment

(archaic) The lower classes of a community; the rabble.

A task that must be done

(collective noun) A group of animals such as horses or cattle.

A specified duty or responsibility

(collective noun) A group of kangaroos.

(Informal) A difficult or strenuous task

(collective noun) A flock of emus.

A specific piece of work to be done for a set fee

A mafia: a group that engages in organized crime.

The object to be worked on

(video games) A non-player character, especially one that exists to be fought or killed to further the progression of the story or game.

Something resulting from or produced by work

(Australian Aboriginal) A group of Aboriginal people associated with an extended family group, clan group or wider community group, from a particular place or country.

An operation done to improve one's appearance, or the result of such an operation. Often used in combination

(obsolete) A promiscuous woman; a harlot or wench; a prostitute.

(Computers) A program application that may consist of several steps but is performed as a single logical unit.

A mob cap.

(Informal) A state of affairs

Abbr of mobile phone

(Informal) A criminal act, especially a robbery

(transitive) To crowd around (someone), sometimes with hostility.

(Informal) An example of a specified type, especially of something made or constructed. Often used in combination

(transitive) To crowd into or around a place.

A jab.

(transitive) To wrap up in, or cover with, a cowl.

See Table at Bible.

A mobcap.

To work at odd jobs.

The lower classes of a community; the populace, or the lowest part of it.

To work by the piece.

A throng; a rabble; esp., an unlawful or riotous assembly; a disorderly crowd.

To act as a jobber.

To wrap up in, or cover with, a cowl.

To purchase (merchandise) from manufacturers and sell it to retailers.

To crowd about, as a mob, and attack or annoy; as, to mob a house or a person.

To arrange for (contracted work) to be done in portions by others; subcontract.

A disorderly crowd of people

To transact (official business) dishonestly for private profit.

A loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities

To jab or make a jab.

An association of criminals;

A task.

Press tightly together or cram;

An economic role for which a person is paid.

(in noun compounds) Plastic surgery.

(in noun compounds) A sex act.

(computing) A task, or series of tasks, carried out in batch mode (especially on a mainframe computer).

A sudden thrust or stab; a jab.

A public transaction done for private profit; something performed ostensibly as a part of official duty, but really for private gain; a corrupt official business.

Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately.

(colloquial) A thing (often used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall).

The police as a profession, act of policing, or an individual police officer.

(intransitive) To do odd jobs or occasional work for hire.

(intransitive) To work as a jobber.

To take the loss.

To buy and sell for profit, as securities; to speculate in.

To subcontract a project or delivery in small portions to a number of contractors.

(intransitive) To seek private gain under pretence of public service; to turn public matters to private advantage.

To strike or stab with a pointed instrument.

To thrust in, as a pointed instrument.

To hire or let in periods of service.

A sudden thrust or stab; a jab.

A piece of chance or occasional work; any definite work undertaken in gross for a fixed price; as, he did the job for a thousand dollars.

A public transaction done for private profit; something performed ostensibly as a part of official duty, but really for private gain; a corrupt official business.

Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately.

A situation or opportunity of work; as, he lost his job.

A task, or the execution of a task; as, Michelangelo did a great job on the David statue.

A task or coordinated set of tasks for a multitasking computer, submitted for processing as a single unit, usually for execution in background. See job control language.

The hero of the book of that name in the Old Testament; the prototypical patient man.

To strike or stab with a pointed instrument.

To thrust in, as a pointed instrument.

To do or cause to be done by separate portions or lots; to sublet (work); as, to job a contract.

To buy and sell, as a broker; to purchase of importers or manufacturers for the purpose of selling to retailers; as, to job goods.

To hire or let by the job or for a period of service; as, to job a carriage.

To do chance work for hire; to work by the piece; to do petty work.

To seek private gain under pretense of public service; to turn public matters to private advantage.

To carry on the business of a jobber in merchandise or stocks.

The principal activity in your life that you do to earn money;

A specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee;

The performance of a piece of work;

The responsibility to do something;

A workplace; as in the expression

An object worked on; a result produced by working;

A state of difficulty that needs to be resolved;

A damaging piece of work;

A crime (especially a robbery);

A Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him

Any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing

(computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit

A book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply

Profit privately from public office and official business

Arranged for contracted work to be done by others

Work occasionally;

Invest at a risk;