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Job's tears
Job's tears (Coix lacryma-jobi, adlay, coix seed, 薏苡) is an Asian grass grown as a minor cereal, medicine, fodder, and bead plant; soft-shelled var. ma-yuen yields grain, hard-shelled var. lacryma-jobi yields ornamental beads.
Job&Talent
Job&Talent is a Madrid-based digital temporary-staffing and workforce management company founded in 2009 by Juan Urdiales and Felipe Navío, valued at €1.3 billion in 2025.
Joba Chamberlain
Joba Chamberlain, American MLB relief pitcher (2007-2016), Yankees 41st overall 2006 pick, 2007 rookie phenom, 2009 World Series champion, retired 2017 after injuries.
Joba Majhi
Joba Majhi is an Indian politician from Jharkhand, born in 1964, who has been the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha Member of the Lok Sabha for Singhbhum since 2024.
Jobab ben Zerah
Jobab ben Zerah, also known as Jobab of Bozrah, is a legendary king of Edom in Genesis 36, second in the list of eight pre-Israelite kings.
Jobandtalent
Jobandtalent is a Madrid-based temporary-staffing technology company founded in 2009 by Juan Urdiales and Felipe Navío, which employs hourly workers and handles scheduling and payment.
Jobbik
Jobbik (Jobbik Magyarországért Mozgalom), Movement for a Better Hungary: Hungarian party founded 2003 from a 1999 student youth movement; radical right breakthrough in 2009–2018, then moderated to conservatism while Fidesz absorbed its positions.
Jobcentre Plus
Jobcentre Plus is Great Britain's network of public employment offices, created in 2001, through which the Department for Work and Pensions pays benefits and brokers jobs.
Jobe Bellingham
Jobe Bellingham (born 2005) is an English midfielder for Borussia Dortmund, number 7, and England U21; younger brother of Jude, ex-Birmingham City and Sunderland, signed for €30.5m in June 2025.
JoBeth Williams
JoBeth Williams (born 1948, Houston) is an American actress known for Poltergeist, The Big Chill, and Stir Crazy, an Emmy and Golden Globe nominee, Oscar-nominated for directing the short On Hope, and former president of the SAG-AFTRA Foundation.
Jobim (Mercurian crater)
Jobim crater, Mercury, 167 km wide, centered at 32.45N 66.88W in quadrangle H-02; IAU-approved September 25, 2015 and named for Brazilian composer Antonio Carlos Jobim (1927-1994).
JobRad Holding AG
JobRad Holding AG, founded by Ulrich Prediger in Freiburg in 2008, leases company bikes to employees through salary arrangements and leads German bike leasing with about 45 percent market share.
Jobs (film)
Jobs is a 2013 American biographical drama film about Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, starring Ashton Kutcher in the title role with Josh Gad as Steve Wozniak.
Jobs created during U.S. presidential terms
Jobs created during U.S. presidential terms are measured as January-to-January changes in nonfarm payroll employment using Bureau of Labor Statistics surveys; Clinton's 22.9 million leads since 1939.
Jobs to be done
Jobs to be done is a theory of innovation and customer motivation holding that people hire products to make progress, developed by Clayton Christensen and Bob Moesta in the 1990s.
Jobseeker's Allowance
Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA), New Style JSA, UK benefit for unemployed people introduced 7 October 1996 replacing Unemployment Benefit; contribution-based version pays up to £95.55 weekly for 182 days, while income-based JSA ended in 2026 under Universal Credit.
Jobst of Moravia
Jobst of Moravia (Jodocus, Jošt; c. 1350–1411), Luxembourg margrave of Moravia, elector of Brandenburg, and briefly elected King of the Romans in the disputed double election of 1410 against Sigismund, dying uncrowned in Brno in January 1411.
Joby Aviation
Joby Aviation is a Santa Cruz, California aerospace company founded by JoeBen Bevirt in 2009 to develop and operate electric air taxis, notably the five-seat S4.
Joby S4
The Joby S4 is an all-electric air taxi developed by Joby Aviation of Santa Cruz, California, carrying a pilot and four passengers at up to 200 mph.
Joc Pederson
Joc Pederson, MLB designated hitter/outfielder (Dodgers, Cubs, Braves, Giants, Diamondbacks, Rangers), two-time All-Star and two-time World Series champion, known for extreme platoon splits and the "Joctober" nickname.
Joc secund
"Joc secund" is a 1929 poem by the Romanian poet and mathematician Ion Barbu, the title poem of his only verse volume and a central hermetic modernist ars poetica.
Jocasta (Ἰοκάστη)
Jocasta (Ἰοκάστη), called Epicaste in Homer, is the Theban queen who is wife of Laius and unknowing mother and wife of Oedipus; versions differ on her children and death: hanging in Homer and Sophocles, stabbing herself over Eteocles and Polynices in Euripides' Phoenissae.
Jocasta complex
Jocasta complex: psychoanalytic term for an abnormally close or incestuous mother-son attachment, named for Oedipus's mother and wife; not a DSM or ICD diagnosis, used in clinical theory and literary criticism.
Jocelin
Jocelin, also spelled Jocelyn, was a Cistercian monk, abbot of Melrose from 1170, and bishop of Glasgow from 1175 to 1199, remembered as a builder of Glasgow Cathedral.
Jocelin Ta Bi
Jocelin Ta Bi (Djiamgone Jocelin Ta Bi), born 2005 in Attécoubé, Côte d'Ivoire, is an Ivorian left-footed right winger developed in Israel (Beitar Tubruk, Maccabi Netanya, Hapoel Petah Tikva loan) who signed for Sunderland in January 2026; Ivory Coast U23 international.
Jocelyn
Jocelyn is a narrative poem by Alphonse de Lamartine, published in February 1836, presenting the verse journal of a village priest devoted to charity and sacrifice.
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Jocelyn Bell Burnell, born 1943 in Belfast, is a British astrophysicist who discovered the first radio pulsars in 1967, though the 1974 Nobel Prize went to her supervisor.
Jocelyn Benson
Jocelyn Benson, Michigan's 43rd Secretary of State since 2019 and Democratic nominee for governor in 2026; Harvard Law graduate, former Wayne State Law dean, author of State Secretaries of State, overseer of Michigan's record 2020 and 2022 elections.
Jocelyn Brando
Jocelyn Pennebaker Brando (1919–2005), American stage, film, and TV actress, older sister of Marlon Brando; Broadway's Lt. Ann Girard in Mister Roberts and Katie Bannion in Fritz Lang's The Big Heat (1953).
Jocelyn Brown
Jocelyn Brown is an American singer, born in 1950, known for the 1984 hit "Somebody Else's Guy" and 1970s disco session vocals with Musique and Inner Life.