To strike or stab with a pointed instrument.
To subcontract a project or delivery in small portions to a number of contractors.
To buy and sell for profit, as securities; to speculate in.
To seek private gain under pretence of public service; to turn public matters to private advantage.
To thrust in, as a pointed instrument.
To work as a jobber.
To do odd jobs or occasional work for hire.
To take the loss.
To hire or let in periods of service.
A thing or whatsit (often used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall).
A sex act.
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.
An economic role for which a person is paid.
The police as a profession, act of policing, or an individual police officer.
A task, or series of tasks, carried out in batch mode (especially on a mainframe computer).
A task.
A sudden thrust or stab; a jab.
Plastic surgery.
Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately.
To place-kick (a goal).
To arrange for or to make (a bet).
To finish second, especially of horses or dogs.
To sing (a note) with the correct pitch.
To earn a given spot in a competition.
To rank at (a certain position, often followed by an ordinal) as in a horse race.
To remember where and when (an object or person) has been previously encountered.
To establish a call (connection by telephone or similar).
To put (an object or person) in a specific location.
To recruit or match an appropriate person for a job, or a home for an animal for adoption, etc.
An inhabited area: a village, town, or city.
Numerically, the column counting a certain quantity.
A state of mind.
The position of first, second, or third at the finish, especially the second position.
An area of the body, especially the skin.
An open space, particularly a city square, market square, or courtyard.
The position of a contestant in a competition.
A location or position in space.
Reception; effect; implying the making room for.
The area one occupies, particularly somewhere to sit.
A role or purpose; a station.
A street, sometimes but not always surrounding a public place, square, or plaza of the same name.
The area where one lives: one's home, formerly (chiefly) country estates and farms.
A particular location in a book or document, particularly the current location of a reader.
The position as a member of a sports team.
Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding.
An area to urinate and defecate: an outhouse or lavatory.
Any area of the earth: a region.