jobs

NOUN

employment

Synonyms

STRONGEST

activity appointment assignment business career office operation place position post profession situation spot stint task trade work

STRONG

berth billet calling capacity chore connection craft engagement faculty function gig grind handicraft line livelihood means niche occupation opening posting pursuit racket swindle vocation

WEAK

daily grind métier nine-to-five rat race

Antonyms

STRONGEST

avocation entertainment fun idleness pastime recreation unemployment

STRONG

hobby inability incompetence surrender

NOUN

task

Synonyms

STRONGEST

action assignment business care duty effort office operation project responsibility role stint task thing work

STRONG

act affair burden charge chore commission concern contribution deed devoir enterprise errand function matter mission obligation province pursuit undertaking venture

WEAK

taskwork tour of duty

Antonyms

STRONGEST

disregard entertainment fun idleness inaction inactivity irresponsibility pastime

STRONG

retreat

WEAK

unemployment

Example Sentences

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Advance was known in the industry for a pledge that employees who weren’t in a union would have jobs regardless of economic downturns or technological advances.

From Los Angeles Times • May 27, 2026

Now, with those entry-level jobs disappearing, there’s danger that “the pathways that provide mobility disintegrate and you lose the American promise of opportunity,” Muro said.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026

Fifty years ago, factory jobs offered a path to the middle class for millions of Americans who didn’t have college degrees.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026

By the 1980s, the Arizona Republic’s classified pages were stuffed with ads for jobs like insurance-claims adjusters, customer-service supervisors and associate auditors.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026

Daddy worked at the Greenbriar as a bellman in addition to doing side jobs.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson