What is the difference between the words "work" and Job? Thanks for your answer.
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work is a noun and a verb.
job is usually only a noun, but is sometimes used as a verb.
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I have a job. They pay me to work for them. I go to work. They give me money.
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I go to work. is ambiguous, can be
I go to my work (place). <-- most common.
or
I go to there to do some work.
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Here is a job for you. File all these.
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He's just passing through, doing odd jobs; anything he can get while he is here.
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Do you have a job? No. I am currently between jobs.
Do you work? No. I am currently between jobs.
Do you have work to do? Yes. But, I'm currently on break. I will get back to work in, umm, three minutes.
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'Work' is normally seen as the place we go to do our 'job' every day. For example, we say 'I'm going to work'. So you are going to your place of work to do your job.
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Using a JOB, we mean a particular place of work that we go to every day in order to complete our WORK and get paid for it.
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