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Part Of A Metaphorical Ladder Crossword Clue

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noun

• the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money

• a Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him

• a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee

• any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing

• a workplace; as in the expression `on the job'

• a book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply

• an object worked on; a result produced by working

• the responsibility to do something

• the performance of a piece of work

• a damaging piece of work

• a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved

• (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit

• a crime (especially a robbery)

verb

• profit privately from public office and official business

• arranged for contracted work to be done by others

• work occasionally

• invest at a risk

25%7 Lower part of rigging cut from triangle, part of a ladder
noun

• (nautical) a small horizontal rope between the shrouds of a sailing ship; they form a ladder for climbing aloft

24%10Metaphorical
adjective

• (used of the meanings of words or text) not literal; using figures of speech

adjective satellite

• consisting of or forming human or animal figures

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