noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a desk job (= working mostly at a desk in an office )
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He left his desk job to become a gardener.
a job advertisement
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Jo was reading the job advertisements in the newspaper.
a job application
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He's made twenty-three job applications and had five interviews.
a job centre (= a place in Britain where jobs are advertised )
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I got the job through an advertisement at the job centre.
a job interview
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Try to predict the questions you might get in your job interview.
a job offer
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I still did not have a formal job offer.
a job vacancy
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He searched the newspapers regularly for job vacancies.
a repair job
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It looked like a simple repair job to me.
a teaching job/post
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I was soon to take up my first teaching post.
accept a job
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She was desperate for money so she accepted the job.
administrative staff/duties/job etc
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the administrative costs of health care systems
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an administrative assistant
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staff who provide technical and administrative support to the college
an impossible job/task
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He faced the impossible task of paying back huge debts.
an urgent task/job
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I’ve got some urgent tasks to finish before I leave tonight.
and a good thing/job too British English
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She’s gone, and a good thing too.
batch job
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a batch job
blow job
botch job
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The whole thing was a botch job .
carry out a task/job
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He was unable to carry out simple tasks.
carry out a task/job
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He was unable to carry out simple tasks.
competent job
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The workmen did a competent job .
creditable job
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She did a creditable job of impersonating the singer.
cut jobs
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The bank announced that it was cutting 500 jobs.
day job
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I’d love to be a professional writer, but I’m not giving up my day job just yet.
demanding job
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a demanding job
demolition job
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He accused opposition leaders of doing a demolition job on the President.
desk job
did a bang-up job
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He did a bang-up job fixing the plumbing.
do a hatchet job
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They were afraid I was going to do a hatchet job on them.
do a job/task
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On Saturdays I usually do a few jobs around the house.
doing a demolition job on
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He accused opposition leaders of doing a demolition job on the President.
do/make a good job (of doing sth) (= do something well )
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Mike’s done a good job of painting the windows.
falling down on the job
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The local authority is falling down on the job of keeping the streets clean.
fiddly job
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Fixing the TV was a fiddly job .
full-time job/education etc
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We aim to double the number of young people in full-time study .
gave it up as a bad job (= stopped trying because success seemed unlikely )
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The ground was too hard to dig so I gave it up as a bad job .
hand job
happy in your work/job etc
hatchet job
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They were afraid I was going to do a hatchet job on them.
humdrum existence/job/life etc
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the prisoners’ humdrum routine
job centre
job creation
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a job creation scheme
job creation
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job creation schemes
job description
job losses
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The company is closing down two of its factories, leading to 430 job losses .
job placement
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The centre provides a job placement service.
job satisfaction (= enjoyment of your job )
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In general, job satisfaction among farm workers is extraordinarily high.
job seeker
job specification (= a detailed description of what a job involves )
job/employment discrimination (= not giving someone a job because of their race, sex etc )
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Progress has been made in eliminating job discrimination.
job/staff cuts
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There have been falling sales and job cuts at the newspaper.
job/vocational training
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The college provides vocational training for nurses and theatre technicians.
keep your mind on the job/task in/at hand
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Making notes is the best way of keeping your mind on the task at hand.
know your job/subject/stuff (= be good at and know all you should about a job or subject )
leave a job/country/Spain etc
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Many missionaries were forced to leave the country.
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It seems that Tony has left the band for good permanently .
losing...job
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David’s very upset about losing his job .
make a job/position etc redundant
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As the economy weakens, more and more jobs will be made redundant.
manual job/labour/worker etc
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low-paid manual jobs
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People in manual occupations have a lower life expectancy.
nose job
not giving up my day job
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I’d love to be a professional writer, but I’m not giving up my day job just yet.
nut job
odd jobs
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I’ve got a few odd jobs to do this weekend.
paint job
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old cars that are given a quick paint job before being sold
perform a task/job/duty etc
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What skills do you need to perform this task?
proper job
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When are you going to settle down and get a proper job ?
put-up job
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It’s been suggested the kidnapping was a put-up job.
regular job (= a job that you do during normal working hours )
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a regular job
repetitive work/tasks/jobs
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repetitive tasks like washing and ironing
sedentary life/job/lifestyle etc
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health problems caused by our sedentary lifestyles
shed jobs/workers/staff etc
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The bank continued to shed workers.
snow job
tackle a job/challenge
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She said she couldn’t face tackling the job on her own.
thankless task/job/chore etc
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Cooking every day is a thankless task.
the patience of Job/a saint (= very great patience )
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Those children would try the patience of a saint.
unenviable task/job etc (of doing sth)
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the unenviable task of informing the victim’s relations
walk...into...job
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You can’t expect to walk straight into a job .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
good
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The dealer contemplated suing the recruitment agency until he found a better job .
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I want to get a good job .
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And now I have a good job , one I like.
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Ask if they did a good job .
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Notching is a good way of checking that your stringer is doing a good job .
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I did a better job with the neighborhood theme; we used the river for science and local jobs for math.
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He always does a good job .
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Every one of them insists our public policies must do a better job of supporting and accommodating and encouraging the family.
new
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Prisons offer hundreds of new jobs and an influx of capital to areas faced with stagnation and long-term decline.
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And he said that many of the new manufacturing jobs are in electronics, typically a high-paying industry.
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What excites planners most is how many new jobs their fiber-optic network could create.
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They were anxious about how much they would like and how well they would perform the new job .
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Enterprising people, in Thatcherism's view, are those who create new jobs .
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It's already secured two million pounds worth of business, and hopes to create fifteen new jobs .
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However, with one exception, none of these new jobs were permanent; some were part-time, and all were low-paid.
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And the money was good ... very good. 3 Karen and Drew At first Karen liked her new job .
odd
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Never use wicker chairs to stand on for odd jobs around the house.
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He was unemployed, and did odd jobs .
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She kept herself alive working odd jobs until she landed a position managing advertising accounts for a local magazine.
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Tock the butler and odd job man about the school.
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Does odd jobs for Domestic Contacts.
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From then on there were no more odd jobs or useful activities.
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I started out as a gofer, running errands for him and doing odd little jobs .
well
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If existing lenders or trainers are getting it wrong, why don't new firms come in and do a better job ?
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In a profession where nearly everyone is always looking for a better job , Zampese is content.
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Sometimes, it wondered whether dinosaurs wouldn't have made a better job of civilisation.
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The groups are asking the U. S. Department of Agriculture to do a better job of identifying sick animals before slaughter.
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Business people say technological change will mean fewer but better jobs .
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The people who can leave and find a better job in business are doing it.
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The Factory Commission might find them all better jobs , or change the way the mill was run.
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What better jobs will open over the summer?
■ NOUN
creation
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The working party outlines the extent, character and location of job creation in services.
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But the policy emphasis was always on job creation stimulated by economic development rather than on direct assistance to the unemployed.
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The scheme offers a tailor-made development package involving support for job creation , project development and training.
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The latter is specifically for revenue expenditure for activities such as training; the emphasis is on job creation .
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That is already improving our competitiveness and we shall see its effects on job creation before much longer.
cut
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The job cuts bring the total across all BAe firms to 43,000 since 1990.
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It is too early to say exactly how many job cuts each agency would absorb, defense officials said.
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All the job cuts will be within the Dayton, Ohio office, which employs about 5,200.
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In December, about 935 job cuts were announced by Illinois-based corporations, according to the firm.
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The job cuts are planned because the government ordered the Council to cut spending by ten million pounds.
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Most of the job cuts will come from the sales and marketing units, and some from administration, Apple said.
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It expects lower extraordinary spending this year, since it has taken charges for job cuts as well as depreciation already.
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No jobs cuts are expected from the acquisition, the firms said.
description
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Examine and agree on a job description first and a contract of employment which you are satisfied with and understand.
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The Judge, accustomed to hearing unconventional job descriptions , none the less appeared perplexed.
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Your job description outlines the main duties that you will be carrying out in the course of your work.
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Subsequently qualifications which indicate the holder's ability to carry out the elements defined in the job description are identified.
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One of the unwritten job descriptions of a basketball coach is as second father to the players.
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Once again, the desirability of clear terms of contract, coupled perhaps with an unambiguous job description , is plain.
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The plus factors are all the intangible attributes that are additional to the job description .
interview
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Does this sound more your sort of job interview ?
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Q: What was your first job interview like?
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I've never even managed to get through a job interview , even if it's a woman doing the interviewing.
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These contexts would include a formal job Interview , meeting an important person, and standing before a court of law.
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More and more companies are now using psychometric tests as back-up to the job interview .
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Christopher Rollinger, a Newbury Park computer programmer, snared a few job interviews during the day.
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He was afraid his uncle might say something about the job interview at town hall.
loss
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Then, in a fit of excess, he ratcheted it up to a full 2 million job losses .
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But most economists now agree that the overall job loss from a modest minimum-wage hike is relatively small.
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Its estimates of job losses in the ferry ports are still broadly accepted although there is little evidence of much decline as yet.
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In the year to March they resulted in job losses of more than 110,000.
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Some cuts, but steering a way from too many job losses is the option favoured by the liberal democrats.
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In Cramlington there were actual job losses for women in full-time employment.
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He blamed what he called the painful kick-back of recent economic problems for the latest spate of job losses .
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The company is not saying how many job losses are forecast for 1992.
market
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Mr Lamont announced five specific initiatives designed to help those out of work re-enter the jobs market , particularly the long-term unemployed.
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How do I re-enter the job market after being a full-time mom?
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On the lower end of the job market , the most popular employer, certainly for girls, was Lyons.
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Partly, the boom in direct selling is fueled by the uncertain job market .
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After all, he hadn't taken degrees in astronomy expecting a hot job market after graduation.
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In a changing job market , employees are hesitant.
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This brief letter should provide you with some guidance concerning the United States job market and your best way of approaching it.
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Low unemployment, a competitive job market and difficulties in recruiting and retaining sailors created the manning problem.
offer
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She turned down the job offer but wondered if she would regret it.
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Then as they look at careers or get job offers , they can weigh them against their list of values.
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Does your present job offer you sufficient challenge?
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Coming out of college, she turned down several lucrative job offers and made just $ 17, 000 two years ago.
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Good attendance, alongside achievement of the other Compact goals is rewarded by the guarantee of a job offer . 7.
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One such twenty-two-year-old chemical engineering graduate had six job offers .
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He says no company of that size can be run without some bureaucracy, and turned down job offers in big corporations.
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Salomon Brothers, he said, never made job offers .
satisfaction
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The final system design is evaluated on the basis of job satisfaction of those working on it as well as its efficiency.
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This leaves little chance of obtaining job satisfaction .
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Waiting times are coming down in most places and staff report improved management and job satisfaction .
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But the job satisfaction of the workers increases dramatically.
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Your job satisfaction ensures your customer satisfaction; - and it shows.
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Working hard is a personal objective, to obtain job satisfaction and potential rewards of career advancement.
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If so, then the response to a question about job satisfaction will be in these terms.
security
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I have a poor salary, no job security , and scant recognition of my skills.
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But workers here are accustomed to lifetime employment and see the provisions as a major threat to their job security .
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Flexible skilling will give more job variety to individuals and increase job security .
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School principals in Chicago sued to eliminate the reform program that took away their lifetime job security .
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It was the only way he believed that both company performance and job security could be assured.
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They had more job security and were less likely to be laid off or made redundant.
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With job security comes increased consumer confidence.
■ VERB
apply
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When applying for a job , make sure you emphasize the interests and leisure activities that an employer would find relevant.
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When he applies for a job , Deane, a partner in his firm, advises him to begin at the bottom.
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BHis biggest hurdle, however, may come when he applies for a job .
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Lillian and Monica and Joe were applying for jobs in the school district.
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Employers know a lot about their businesses, how to apply for jobs and other work-related issues.
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Mariah applied and got the job .
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What made you apply for this particular job ?
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Last fall, Kaczynski applied for a job at the Blackfoot Market, but Potter had already filled the position.
cost
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Is he further aware that many industrialists believe that those high premium rates will cost us business and jobs ?
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It was a hesitation that would ultimately cost Sculley his job .
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Yet the Government's spending assessment requires savings of £4m that will cost 140 teachers' jobs .
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Labor Secretary Robert Reich said the report proved that raising the minimum wage does not cost jobs .
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The Professional's wife, acting as Steward, was dismissed for bad language and automatically it cost her husband his job .
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If the current situation does not cost Frieder his job , it should at least force him to re-examine recruiting practices.
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I believe that it would cost jobs and cost prosperity in this country.
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Having this child would cost her her job .
create
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The investment will create 750 jobs directly and a great many more indirectly.
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As the population grew, business services increased, creating more job openings and luring more people.
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And it has created a new job , that of quality assurance manager, to ensure that standards are maintained.
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But they produce virtually nothing and create precious few jobs .
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Critics have charged Sniffen with setting up the center to supplement his income and create a job for himself.
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It's already secured two million pounds worth of business, and hopes to create fifteen new jobs .
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In manufacturing, those small businesses with four or fewer employees were the only ones to create net new jobs .
do
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He knew that Joyce, in order to look good as a project leader, needed him to do the job .
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If you do your present job well and build a fine reputation, your good work will be rewarded.
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Some new chips incorporate tiny electromechanical or electrochemical devices to do jobs that used to be done by more expensive electronics.
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A similar team subsequently then returned to do the same job .
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I do my job , and I do my job well.
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We do a job a day, and you have to finish the job.
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When duty calls, Bob Dole does his job .
find
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Finally, after Green died, Dorothy Wordsworth helped Green's son to find a job .
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This is especially so. if a general shortage of demand keeps him from finding a job elsewhere.
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Is it helping those made redundant to find new jobs , and immigrants to fit in?
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Let him find a job where he can build things.
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For quite some time many people will find a job to be a workable stopgap solution to the need for an income.
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However, for the last 6 months or so he had ceased to make regular efforts to find a job .
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I assure you he won't have trouble finding another job .
get
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A few fear that the outcome could be harmful; they foresee a new underclass, unable to get jobs or insurance.
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I said I could get a job for Johnson&038;.
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Then I got another job , the same kind as a machinist, and I put the baby in a nursery.
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In this there was a lesson: To get the best job , you had to weather the most abuse.
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What he should do is chill out, get a job and pay off his debts, but he doesn't.
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First, get rid of jobs .
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It was okay painting window frames, but it wasn't going to help me get a job when I got outside.
give
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All went well and Chris was given the job .
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He liked to give job applicants timed tests containing 150 questions dealing with science, history, engineering, and other subjects.
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At the most it may mean giving up a job .
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Hendricks give him a job to help him get out and the boy worked one week and quit.
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As the first businessman to be given the job , his £125,000 salary could reach £167,000 with bonuses.
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Soon, they give the job back to you.
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This survey revealed that 11 percent of carers had given up their job to care.
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But he would not commit himself to giving the job to the Sharps.
hold
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Depending on your contract of employment, your employer probably has to hold your job open for you during your treatment.
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Hirsh was a hospital pharmacist who needed to hold down two jobs to save money to start a family.
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You report that the Hindus of Kashmir hold the top government jobs in Kashmir.
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In addition, she did all the housework, her graduate studies, and held down two part-time jobs .
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Mr Quiles is probably more concerned to hold on to his job .
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For example, anytime / anyplace programs allow prison inmates to hold outside jobs .
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They'd been engaged twice but she kept breaking it off because he couldn't hold a job down.
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Something over 6 percent of the workforce currently reports holding more than one job , although that figure is undoubtedly too low.
keep
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Now the message is that keeping the job is a triumph - never mind the extra stripes!
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Many political analysts believe that Clinton can not keep his job without winning the states' 54 electoral votes.
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In the meantime, he earned his keep with a part-time job in a toyshop.
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Meanwhile, the 30-something gals are keeping their crummy day jobs .
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None expects to keep his job after 1999.
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They have to meet payrolls that keep and create jobs .
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In part two: Clean round the bend.Sweepers offer to take take a pay cut to keep their jobs .
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Initially, Simpson said, King and Ryan expressed sympathy for her and vowed she could keep her job .
land
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Those who can also show some engineering or other relevant qualifications are, of course, more likely to land a job .
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Telbis-Preis landed a job as an engineer at McDonnell Douglas.
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In a year's time or less she would land herself a good job , and a place to live.
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White has already landed a warehouse job .
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Current boss Ray Hankin is waiting and hoping he will land the job on a permanent basis.
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If you let him send his resume on a pizza box, he will land a job .
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But Bruce-who won every domestic honour during his time at Manchester United-is the favourite to land the job .
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True as that might be, the process of landing a job with the firm had been suspiciously pleasant.
leave
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The pits close, leaving thousands without jobs in pit-head villages that they or their fathers once came to for work.
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They had already paid him some $ 22 million to leave his last job .
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The big, direct New Zealander may have to leave this job half done.
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At thirteen he left that job and started his own sign-painting business.
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She and her best friend cried when they heard I was leaving for another job .
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But just wait until they leave their jobs !
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Why did you leave your last job ?
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Avent is leaving her job this week to spend more time with her family in Phoenix.
lose
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Failure to do so may put the management team at risk of losing their jobs if the buy-out attempt is not successful.
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Meanwhile eight-tenths of a percent of all low-wage earners would lose their jobs over three years.
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Patricia Lee has left Barnard Castle after losing her friends and job , the town's magistrates were told.
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Sixty people have already lost their jobs at the Norfolk Smokehouses food processing plant.
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Lost his players, lost nine games, lost his job with Tampa.
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Tom says he hopes his success will give heart to those who've lost their jobs .
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Nearly 300 employees lost their jobs in the fallout.
perform
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His doubts only increased when he performed another job , midway to finally making up his mind about the Bolt play.
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Under such a system, workers have the opportunity to increase their base pay by learning to perform a variety of jobs .
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Ultra-violet light sterilisers perform a similar job to ozone without so many possible side effects.
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Since they learn to perform more jobs , they are more valuable to their company because they are more flexible.
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His wife was the chairman of a health authority and she performed that job excellently for many years.
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Everyone seems to know how to perform every job and is willing to do so.
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The computer revolution may have a significant effect upon the way in which you are able to perform your job .
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They were anxious about how much they would like and how well they would perform the new job .
provide
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It provided jobs for at least 160,000 people, mostly rural women who have moved to the cities and towns.
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Second, sufficient funding should be provided to do the job properly.
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Progress can provide an interesting job for the right person with the opportunity to rise.
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The employers pledged to provide summer and after-school jobs for young people and to give priority hiring to public school graduates.
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The idea of contract is made explicit by the more senior manager providing resources for a job to be done.
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The Clef Club was key in providing jobs and dignity for many exploited black musicians.
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The systems analysts are encouraged to provide opportunity for increasing job satisfaction when redesigning the system.
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The program helps small businesses provide job training opportunities.
quit
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Unhappy with the working environment, she decided to quit the job to pursue her interest in alternative therapy.
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Their husbands say they will quit their jobs later, if the business proves a winner.
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Long had quit his job because of the incident and was unlikely to get another.
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Llanos quit his job at the bookstore Dec. 28, saying he was moving back to Los Angeles.
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But following the ordeal, he's decided to quit his job .
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Obviously, you do not need to quit your job because of these fears.
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She quit her job as manager of the Automoto Insurance Company.
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Neither will have quit jobs , left families or lugged belongings across the country.
take
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Women had come to take over men's jobs as platform, goods, and parcel-porters, ticket-collectors, and engine cleaners.
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He left to take a permanent job .
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Will she be forced to drop out of college and take whatever job she can find?
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They forget I took the job on the understanding that management of a national team can only be part-time employment.
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On Thursday evening Reed called Kemp and got an assurance that he would take the job if offered.
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Unemployed workers may take alternative jobs elsewhere, but will not permanently leave the sector.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a dye job
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Her hair had been re-styled and had nothing of the incompetent dye job that had once been her most eyecatching feature.
Job's comforter
a devil of a time/job etc
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But I've always found the Flying V and its derivatives a devil of a job to sit down with and play.
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He was taking a devil of a time to change.
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If he filled those in they'd have a devil of a job lifting them!
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It took me a devil of a time to find it I can tell you.
be a full-time job
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But looking after the wear and tear was a full-time job.
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But most people in Hanoi could not afford consumer luxuries, and even acquiring necessities was a full-time job.
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C.-it was a full-time job and there was no choice in the matter.
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It really was a full-time job.
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It was a full-time job and if the husband was gone, it was a major loss.
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Job hunting is a full-time job.
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Managing diversity will be a full-time job for anyone with a niche in the interlinked economy.
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Now it really is a full-time job.
be one crazy woman/be one interesting job etc
be unequal to the task/job etc
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The country is in such disorder that a successor may be unequal to the task of putting it right.
cost sb their job/life/marriage etc
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And, for those who work in the travel and tourism industry, this tax could cost them their jobs.
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His plans to slash defence budgets by £6 billion would cost 100,000 more their jobs.
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I believe that it would cost many people their jobs and would cause far more damage than good.
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It could cost them their lives.
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The most far-reaching internal investigation in Phoenix police history cost four officers their jobs Friday for purchasing banned rifles under false pretenses.
dead-end job
dream house/home/job etc
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A palace, Carolyn told herself, a dream house.
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But just a couple of days after they moved into their dream home in Quedgeley, it was stolen and torched.
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Cracking up ... the dream home that's become a couple's nightmare.
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Finally, my family had a dream home and I had my own room with a view of Mount Fuji.
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It was all preparation for her dream job: a foreign correspondent, roaming the world in a trench coat.
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John Combes and his wife lived out their lives in their dream house, and their children stayed here until the 1760s.
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Sadly, they were forced to rent their dream house to tenants for the $ 25 monthly mortgage.
good job
have the patience of Job
hold down a job
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Clarke holds down two jobs to support his family.
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Kelly wants to prove to his father that he can hold down a job.
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But if you are schizophrenic, you can not think straight, concentrate, hold down a job.
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During the day they held down jobs as, respectively, a waitress and delivery driver.
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Frye was expounding on the dangers of holding down a job while taking a full load of courses.
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People with long-term mental disorder have many problems in holding down a job.
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Rella could hold down jobs, when she wanted to.
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Who would employ her and how would she hold down a job?
it's a dirty job, but someone has to do it
job-hunting/house-hunting/flat-hunting
job/careers fair
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One visit to a nursing careers fair will convince you of this.
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The number of stalls and the range of employers represented at careers fairs has dwindled sharply.
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The report is backed up by anecdotal evidence from careers fairs .
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The workers also were given the chance to participate in a job fair .
jobbing builder/gardener/printer etc
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He was a jobbing gardener by trade.
not just any (old) man/woman/job etc
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And a T'ang is not just any man.
pink-collar jobs/workers/industries etc
plum job/role/assignment etc
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For me, it was a plum assignment.
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He took over the £60,000-a-year plum job only three weeks ago.
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The good news was he had landed a plum job on the mortgage trading desk.
responsible job/position
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Now he walks on crutches and holds a responsible position with a magazine in New York.
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One or two had quite responsible positions in their employment.
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Or normally have had not less than three years' experience in a responsible position in an approved specialist field within the industry.
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So far his strategy seems to be working: although younger than William, he occupies a more responsible position.
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The five-year MEng honours degree course is for particularly able students who expect to assume responsible positions in industry immediately after graduation.
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What had those educated women in that church, many of them with responsible jobs in London, in common with that story?
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Yet Margaret holds a responsible position in marketing and is by no means untalented.
steady job/work/income
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A steady income stream is required to meet the costs of the syndicated lending department.
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And we receive a steady income from interest on Third World debts.
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He appears to have given up steady work.
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I wish he had taken up some steady work.
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Maybe you are heading toward retirement and therefore need investments that can provide you with a steady income.
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Sethe was laughing; he had a promise of steady work, 124 was cleared up from spirits.
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She chooses whatever is available, probably a slightly older man with no more money but a steady job.
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The only ones with a steady income were teachers, storekeepers and local officials.
the job/labour market
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And the labour market is the invisible global bazaar where survival-life itself-is traded for work.
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By focusing on wage profiles it is possible to show contrasts between different segments of the labour market .
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For some who can work, corporate downsizing and increased competition in the job market have led to self-employment.
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How do I re-enter the job market after being a full-time mom?
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However as she grows older, and perhaps re-enters the labour market , domestic tasks are shared more equitably.
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I first entered the job market more than 30 years ago.
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In particular, the real wage will adjust spontaneously soas to prevent the emergence of excess supply in the labour market .
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This trend is likely to continue, restructuring the job market into two distinct tiers.
walk off (the/your etc job)
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A reporter for the Wheeling Intelligencer had just walked off the structure when the catastrophe occurred.
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Emotionlessly she kissed me in the vineyard and walked off down the row.
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He walked off disconsolate: he knew he had played well enough to win and had not.
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It makes the software easier to display and harder to walk off with.
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Stewart walked off with the look of one who was the sole survivor of a particularly nasty plane crash.
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The sergeant was tempted to walk off but did not.
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We had quite literally walked off the map.
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When he walked off towards the car park Henry didn't bother following.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Cleaning the car's one of my least favorite jobs.
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Daniel starts his new job on Monday.
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He didn't complain or criticize, he just got on with the job .
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He does odd jobs for people in his spare time.
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Her son still hasn't been able to find a job .
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His new computer's one of those little portable jobs.
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I always take my car to York Street garage. They're expensive, but they do a good job .
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I had a part-time job while I was in college.
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If a woman is qualified, she should hold any job in government she wants.
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Irene did a nice job on those clothes didn't she?
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Let's just concentrate on the job in hand, shall we?
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Moving all this stuff is going to be a big job .
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My first job was in a record store.
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Repairing the roof -- that's going to be the biggest job .
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She's looking for a job in the music business.
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She has a well-paid job in the tax department.
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She was upset, and found it difficult to keep her mind on the job at hand.
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Ted got a job as a bartender.
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The company announced 74,000 job cuts and 21 factory closures.
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The police are convinced it was an insider job .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I got it all right, but like I told you, it wasn't a maid's job .
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Many other jobs get handed out simply because a minister happens to know some one who might fit the bill.
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Most military jobs are essentially desk-bound and technical, clerical, or managerial in nature.
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The job of the providers is to come up with best combination of service and cost.
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There are groups of employees with specific job specialties, such as cashiers, stock clerks, and meat-cutters.
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We know that their learning curve on the job is less than anybody else that we might bring in.