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仕事

仕事

Japanese

Kanji in this term

Grade: 3
こと > ごと
Grade: 3
jūbakoyomi

Noun

仕事 (hiragana しごと, romaji shigoto)

  1. work, occupation, employment, business

Derived terms

  • 仕事運 (shigotoun): fate as concerns business
  • 仕事柄 (shigotogara): for work, work-related
  • 仕事着 (shigotogi): work clothes, business suit
  • 仕事口 (shigotoguchi): work opening, work position
  • 仕事師 (shigotoshi): workman, enterpriser, schemer
  • 仕事台 (shigotodai): workbench, work table
  • 仕事中 (shigotochū): at work, working
  • 仕事場 (shigotoba): place where one works
  • 仕事箱 (shigotobako): workbox
  • 仕事日 (shigotobi): work day
  • 仕事量 (shigotoryō): workload, amount of work done by one
  • 仕事探し (shigotosagashi): job hunting, job searching
  • 仕事始め, 仕事始 (shigotohajime): resuming work after New Year's vacation
  • 仕事振り, 仕事ぶり (shigotoburi): the way one works
  • 仕事の鬼 (shigoto no oni): work fiend, devil for work
  • 仕事の虫 (shigoto no mushi): workaholic
  • 仕事一途 (shigoto ichizu): singlemindedly devoted to work
  • 仕事中毒 (shigoto chūdoku): workaholism
  • 仕事人間 (shigoto ningen): fiend for work, workaholic
  • 仕事一筋 (shigoto hitosuji): living only for work
  • 仕事部屋 (shigotobeya): workroom
  • 仕事中毒者 (shigoto chūdokusha): workaholic
  • 仕事第一主義 (shigoto daiichi shugi): workaholism
  • 仕事で忙しい (shigoto de isogashii): busy with work
  • 仕事に勤しむ (shigoto ni isoshimu): be assiduous in business
  • 仕事に掛かる, 仕事にかかる (shigoto ni kakaru): get to work
  • 仕事に堪える (shigoto ni taeru): be fit for work
  • 仕事を上げる (shigoto o ageru): finish the work
  • 仕事を済ます (shigoto o sumasu): finish work
  • 仕事を辞める, 仕事をやめる (shigoto o yameru): quit a job, resign
  • 仕事に応募する (shigoto ni ōba suru): apply for a job
  • 荒仕事 (arashigoto): rough work, hard work
  • 大仕事 (ōshigoto): big job, great task
  • 下仕事 (shitashigoto): spade work, subcontract
  • 力仕事 (chikarashigoto): physical work, manual labour
  • 賃仕事 (chinshigoto): piecework
  • 手仕事 (teshigoto): handwork, manual labor
  • 出仕事 (deshigoto): outside work
  • 庭仕事 (niwashigoto): gardening
  • 畑仕事 (hatashigoto): working in the fields, work on a farm
  • 針仕事 (harishigoto): needlework, sewing
  • 一仕事 (hitoshigoto): task
  • 骨仕事 (honeshigoto): backbreaking work
  • 水仕事 (mizushigoto): scrubbing and washing, kitchen work
  • 夜仕事 (yoshigoto): night work
  • 藁仕事 (warashigoto): making things out of straw
  • 旨い仕事 (umai shigoto): profitable business
  • 課の仕事 (ka no shigoto): job of a section
  • 隠居仕事 (inkyo shigoto): post-retirement job
  • 請負仕事 (ukeoi shigoto): contract work
  • 腰掛仕事, 腰掛け仕事 (koshikake shigoto): temporary employment
  • 根気仕事 (konki shigoto): laborious task
  • 書類仕事 (shoroi shigoto): paperwork
  • 手間仕事 (tema shigoto): tedious job, troublesome job
  • 殿様仕事 (tonosama shigoto): amateur work
  • 道楽仕事 (dōraku shigoto): work done for enjoyment
  • 野良仕事 (nora shigoto): farm work, field labor
  • 半端仕事 (hanpa shigoto): odd job
  • 役所仕事 (yakusho shigoto): red tape
  • お役所仕事, 御役所仕事 (oyakusho shigoto): bureaucratic routine
  • 片手間仕事 (katatema shigoto): side job, odd jobs
  • 出来高仕事 (dekidaka shigoto): piecework
  • 遣っ付け仕事, やっつけ仕事 (yattsuke shigoto): rush job
  • 分の良い仕事 (bu no ii shigoto): profitable job

Verb

仕事する (hiragana しごとする, romaji shigoto suru)

  1. work

Conjugation

References

  • 2002, Yasuo Kitahara, 明鏡国語辞典 (Meikyō Kokugo Jiten), First Edition (in Japanese), Tokyo: Taishūkan Shoten, ISBN 4469021067
  • 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, ISBN 4095102535.