Job vs Possie - What's the difference?
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A task.
* 1996 , (Tom Cruise) in the movie (Jerry Maguire)
An economic role for which a person is paid.
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(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.
A thing (often used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall).
To do odd jobs or occasional work for hire.
* Moore
To work as a jobber.
To take the loss.
(trading) To buy and sell for profit, as securities; to speculate in.
(transitive, often, with out) To subcontract a project or delivery in small portions to a number of contractors.
To seek private gain under pretence of public service; to turn public matters to private advantage.
* Alexander Pope
To strike or stab with a pointed instrument.
To thrust in, as a pointed instrument.
To hire or let in periods of service.
A firing position.
* 1990 , Matthew Kentridge, An unofficial war: inside the conflict in Pietermaritzburg
* 2005 , Matthew Wright, Western front: the New Zealand Division in the first World War, 1916-18
* 2006 , Wesley Olson, Gallipoli: the Western Australian story
(Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) A position or place, especially one that is advantageous.
* 1984 , Garrie Hutchinson, A Practice Game at the Old Home Ground'', from ''From the Outer'', reprinted 2001, David Headon (editor), ''The Best Ever Australian Sports Writing: A 200 Year Collection ,
* 1998 , , Volume 20, Issues 47-49,
* 2009 , Andrew Bain, Ethan Gelber, Cycling Australia , Lonely Planet,
Job is a related term of possie.
As a proper noun job
is job.As a noun possie is
a firing position.job
English
Noun
(en noun)- ''And it's my job to take care of the skanks on the road that you bang.
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Usage notes
* Adjectives often applied to "job": easy, hard, poor, good, great, excellent, decent, low-paying, steady, stable, secure, challenging, demanding, rewarding, boring, thankless, stressful, horrible, lousy, satisfying, industrial, educational, academic.Derived terms
* blow job * good job * job center * job queue * poor jobVerb
(jobb)- Authors of all work, to job for the season.
- We wanted to sell a turnkey plant, but they jobbed out the contract to small firms.
- And judges job , and bishops bite the town.
- (Moxon)
- to job a carriage
- (Thackeray)
Derived terms
* blowjob * bob-a-job * boob job * desk job * good job * handjob * jobber * jobless * job of work * job-seeker * jobsware * job title * joe job * nose job * paint job * toe job * rim jobSee also
* employment * work * labourpossie
English
Alternative forms
* pozzyNoun
(en noun)- I'm just sitting in my possie , my place, waiting for something to happen.
- 'There is a beautiful odour in the possie where we are,' HG Clark wrote to his family...
- Away from the firing line, these possies and dugouts could be made larger...
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- The fans seem happy to be back, finding their formerly favourite possies in the stands, or around the strangely sunken perimeter fence.
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- Of course, it helps if you are very rich and regularly pay more than $40,000 for a couture outfit to be guaranteed of a near-front-row possie at the bi-annual parades (winter and summer collections).
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- It?s in a good people-watching possie and if you have an early dinner between 3pm and 7pm you get a 40% discount.
