What's the difference between job and subcontract?

Job


Definition:

  • (n.) A sudden thrust or stab; a jab.
  • (n.) A piece of chance or occasional work; any definite work undertaken in gross for a fixed price; as, he did the job for a thousand dollars.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately.
  • (n.) A situation or opportunity of work; as, he lost his job.
  • (v. t.) To strike or stab with a pointed instrument.
  • (v. t.) To thrust in, as a pointed instrument.
  • (v. t.) To do or cause to be done by separate portions or lots; to sublet (work); as, to job a contract.
  • (v. t.) To buy and sell, as a broker; to purchase of importers or manufacturers for the purpose of selling to retailers; as, to job goods.
  • (v. t.) To hire or let by the job or for a period of service; as, to job a carriage.
  • (v. i.) To do chance work for hire; to work by the piece; to do petty work.
  • (v. i.) To seek private gain under pretense of public service; to turn public matters to private advantage.
  • (v. i.) To carry on the business of a jobber in merchandise or stocks.
  • (n.) The hero of the book of that name in the Old Testament; the typical patient man.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Not only do they give employers no reason to turn them into proper jobs, but mini-jobs offer workers little incentive to work more because then they would have to pay tax.
  • (2) That means deciding what job they’d like to have and outlining the steps they’ll need to take to achieve it.
  • (3) The idea that 80% of an engineer's time is spent on the day job and 20% pursuing a personal project is a mathematician's solution to innovation, Brin says.
  • (4) Of course the job is not done and we will continue to remain vigilant to all risks, particularly when the global economic situation is so uncertain,” the chancellor said in a statement.
  • (5) To this figure an additional 250,000 older workers must be added, who are no longer registered as unemployed but nevertheless would be interested in finding another job.
  • (6) When compared with self-reported exposures, the sensitivity of both job-exposure matrices was low (on average, below 0.51), while the specificity was generally high (on average, above 0.90).
  • (7) David Cameron has insisted that membership of the European Union is in Britain's national interest and vital for "millions of jobs and millions of families", as he urged his own backbenchers not to back calls for a referendum on the UK's relationship with Brussels.
  • (8) "We do not think the Astra management have done a good job on behalf of shareholders.
  • (9) No one has jobs,” said Annie, 45, who runs a street stall selling fried chicken and rice in the Matongi neighbourhood.
  • (10) For enrolled nurses an increase in "Intrinsic Job Satisfaction" was less well maintained and no differences were found over time on "Patient Focus".
  • (11) If black people could only sort out these self-inflicted problems themselves, everything would be OK. After all, doesn't every business say it welcomes job applicants from all backgrounds?
  • (12) It did the job of triggering growth, but it also fueled real-estate speculation, similar to what was going on in the mid-2000s here.” Slowing economic growth may be another concern.
  • (13) I hope they fight for the money to make their jobs worth doing, because it's only with the money (a drop in the ocean though it may be) that they'll be able to do anything.
  • (14) Guardian Australia reported last week that morale at the national laboratory had fallen dramatically, with one in three staff “seriously considering” leaving their jobs in the wake of the cuts.
  • (15) Which must make yesterday's jobs figures doubly alarming for the coalition.
  • (16) Such a decision put hundreds of British jobs at risk and would once again deprive Londoners of the much-loved hop-on, hop-off service.
  • (17) This defeat, though, is hardly a good calling card for the main job.
  • (18) Here's Dominic's full story: US unemployment rate drops to lowest level in six years as 288,000 jobs added Michael McKee (@mckonomy) BNP economists say jobless rate would have been 6.8% if not for drop in participation rate May 2, 2014 2.20pm BST ING's Rob Carnell is also struck by the "extraordinary weakness" of US wage growth .
  • (19) He's called out for his lack of imagination in a stinging review by a leading food critic (Oliver Platt) and - after being introduced to Twitter by his tech-savvy son (Emjay Anthony) - accidentally starts a flame war that will lead to him losing his job.
  • (20) Pearson had been informed after that bizarre incident that he was out of a job only to be told that he was back in work a few hours later .

Subcontract


Definition:

  • (n.) A contract under, or subordinate to, a previous contract.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He said he was working hard to ensure that the large companies that take on the task of helping the unemployed also subcontract some of this work to smaller, local voluntary firms.
  • (2) Funds are awarded to schools of medicine or osteopathy which in turn subcontract with at least two other health professional schools.
  • (3) An investment corporation could be set up to spend the money, either by building generation capacity directly, or by subcontracting the work to existing operators.
  • (4) The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, headed by environment secretary Liz Truss, and HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), whose chief executive is Lin Homer, continue to refuse to ensure that all their subcontracted staff are paid the living wage.
  • (5) He also pointed out that where NBC will be the exclusive Premier League rights holder (and it is not planning to subcontract games, as Fox does with ESPN), it is one of several partners MLS has, including ESPN, Univision, numerous local affiliates and its own MLS Digital arm: "It's a much, much different relationship.
  • (6) Employers shouldn’t be misclassifying workers to keep labor costs down and they shouldn’t be hiding behind complex arrangements like franchising and subcontracting to skirt their responsibilities to their workers.
  • (7) Ed Miliband is said to have "subcontracted" responsibility for HS2 to Balls and moved Maria Eagle, an outspoken supporter of HS2, out of her job as shadow transport secretary, in his recent reshuffle.
  • (8) It in turn subcontracted the supply of some equipment to a third company, Dorset company Kestrel Ophthalmics .
  • (9) Think instead of the thousands of workers at the base of football’s financial pyramid, the people in catering, cleaning, security and ground maintenance who are paid the minimum wage and, if their work is subcontracted, perhaps not even that.
  • (10) In a submission to a Senate inquiry into serious allegations of abuse and conditions at the Australian-run Nauru detention centre , a former employee subcontracted to security provider Wilson Security accused the company of engaging in serious misconduct.
  • (11) In an extraordinary submission to a Senate inquiry into serious allegations of abuse and conditions at the Australian-run Nauru detention centre , a former employee subcontracted to security provider Wilson Security accused the company of engaging in serious misconduct.
  • (12) The inquiry also heard evidence from three executives from Wilson Security, which is subcontracted by Transfield Services to manage security.
  • (13) In a letter to Lin Homer, chief executive of HMRC, the Whitehall cleaners argue that although they are subcontracted through a cleaning company, it is ultimately the responsibility of the government department to ensure a just wage.
  • (14) Yet the design of the HIP [home insulation program] facilitated installers subcontracting work to other entities or individuals.” Garrett said it eventually “became apparent” to him that the architecture of the scheme was insufficient.
  • (15) He blames producers who are subcontracting, or buying in chicken from China and then relabelling it as Thai produce before selling it on, just as British factories buy in poultry from the Netherlands and relabel it as British.
  • (16) Citizens UK welcomes that commitment, and calls on Manchester City to go further, to set an example and commit to ensuring that its subcontracted staff – such as those working for the catering companies which serve up major matchday profits to the football clubs – are also paid a living wage.
  • (17) I had never imagined that the justice minister, Chris Grayling, would in effect subcontract a fine repayment to a racketeer.
  • (18) Others will get involved with subcontracting [to them], although risk having their fingers burned by payment by results … there is also a big push to establish consortia and there is a push to establish partnerships with business."
  • (19) It subcontracts much of its work to a pool of 250 or so academics, businessmen, economists, retired civil servants and journalists.
  • (20) I didn’t actually come here to free slaves,” says Liam Neeson as Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn in The Phantom Menace , like a person to whom a huge number of vexing tasks has been subcontracted.

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