job
UK: /dʒɒb/ US: /dʒɑːb/Translation
n [c]
Véase tb: {job/performance} appraisal; a steady {job/work}; hatchet job; inside job; job vacancy; odd jobs; plum job; to be a good {job/thing}; to do odd jobs›
⇨ tarea
⇨ trabajo
I have finished the jobs you gave me He terminado los trabajos que me diste
›
⇨ empleo
⇨ puesto de trabajo
He found a job as an electrician Encontró un puesto de trabajo como electricista
⇨ laburo amér. col.
›It's my job
Es mi responsabilidad
job application
⇨ solicitud de trabajo
job offer
⇨ oferta de trabajo
out of a job
⇨ en paro
to be a good job UK (inform)It's a good job I brought my umbrella
Menos mal que traje el paraguas
col. to do the job (inform)
⇨ servir
It'll do the job Servirá
to have a job {doing/to do} sth
⇨ costar hacer algo
I'll have a job saving Me costará ahorrar
(Definition of job n from the Diccionario Cambridge Compact English-Spanish
© Cambridge University Press and Ediciones SM 2011)
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