Coix lacryma-jobi, a tall grain-bearing perennial tropical plant of the family Poaceae, native to southeast Asia.

Alternative form of Job's news

Reproof instead of consolation.

Synonym of hyperimmunoglobulin E syndrome

Synonym of poor as Job

(Britain, colloquial) Expresses satisfaction that a task has been or will be carried out successfully, often suggesting that the task is simple, or ironically implying that it has been completed in a cursory or slapdash manner.

(US) A job in which one remains for one's whole career until one's retirement.

(idiomatic) A great amount of patience.

A job where employment status is guaranteed by a union; a sinecure.

(idiomatic) A crime or other illicit action committed by or with the help of someone either employed by the victim or entrusted with access to the victim's affairs and premises.