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What is the difference between work and job ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
What is the difference between work and job ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
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Work can be used as a verb and a noun.
Eg Iām working there. (v.
I have to do my work. (n.
But job is a noun, such as officer, doctor, driverā¦these are jobs. Eg he is looking for a job.
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- English (US)
Both words have different connotations depending on how they are used. Do you have a specific example?
- Simplified Chinese (China)
- English (US)
Work can be used as a verb and a noun.
Eg Iām working there. (v.
I have to do my work. (n.
But job is a noun, such as officer, doctor, driverā¦these are jobs. Eg he is looking for a job.
- Russian
@qb0000 I understand that job is a kind of profession, but why do people say "good job" when somebody did something well? Why didn't they say "good work"?
- English (US)
Job also means task or assignment, a finite finished thing. You can say āyou did good work@ , but it seems the media industry ( tv, films, etc) have used this phrase and people use it as a well known phrase, so it is more popular to say,
- English (US)
You for example want to see a new dentist , your friend tells you that ŠŠ²Š°Š½ across town is a good dentist. You ask ādoes he do good work?ā Your friend opens his mouth and points to the tooth that was fixed, and says he did a good job. So here āworkā is a more general term for producing energy while ājobā describes a particular single completed task.
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