job vs ball-breaker

ball-breaker vs job

job and ball-breaker both are nouns.

job is a verb but ball-breaker is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
job	Yes	No	Yes	No
ball-breaker	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, ball-breaker is a hyponym of job; that is, ball-breaker is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than job:

job: a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee
ball-breaker: a job or situation that is demanding and arduous and punishing

Other hyponyms of job include ball-buster, stint, scut work, shitwork.

job (noun)	ball-breaker (noun)
the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money	a job or situation that is demanding and arduous and punishing
a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee	a demanding woman who destroys men's confidence
a crime (especially a robbery)
a damaging piece of work
the responsibility to do something
the performance of a piece of work
a workplace; as in the expression `on the job'
an object worked on; a result produced by working
(computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit
a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved

job (verb)	ball-breaker (verb)
invest at a risk
work occasionally
profit privately from public office and official business
arranged for contracted work to be done by others

Difference between job and ball-breaker

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