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Translation

job, post, position (of employment)

Word origin

An Esperanto compound of laboro ('work') and posteno ('post, station'). Laboro is Latin labor, toil; posteno comes through French poste and Italian posto to Latin ponere, 'to place', which is also the root behind poŝto.

Origin
Esperanto compound
Root
laboro + posteno
English cognates
labour, post, position

Examples

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She lost her job at the factory.

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He is looking for a new job in another town.

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The company is offering a good position to a young engineer.

Built from laboro and posteno, main root last as always, so the thing is a and labor- says which kind. A on its own is a station, the spot you are posted to, and it carries a faintly military flavour: a sentry stands . Adding labor- civilianises it into a job.

The point of having the compound at all is that the three near-words do different jobs. is the work itself, the activity: means I have a lot to do, not that I have several jobs. is the position, the slot in an organisation, the thing you apply for and can lose. Ofico is an office in the sense of a duty held, a role with responsibilities attached rather than a wage. So you , you , and you .

Shorter alternatives circulate. alone is often clear enough from context, and o covers the state of being employed. But is the unambiguous one, which is why it is the word that made the frequency list.

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This word is part of lesson 36.