Device and Job

Device

Device noun - A clever often underhanded means to achieve an end.

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Job and device are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Job" instead a noun "Device".

Job noun - An assignment at which one regularly works for pay.

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Device and job are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Device" instead a noun "Job".

Nearby Word: jobless

old	old device	old job
good	good device	good job
similar	similar device	similar job
specific	specific device	specific job
Other adjectives: single, simple, actual, big, great, dangerous, main, important, new, latest.

Queen Starsha provided Mamoru Kodai's stored consciousness for the job, but Mamoru set off the device prematurely to revive Yuki Mori after she was killed in action.

Source: Anime / Space Battleship Yamato 2199
To this, many point out that the reasoning is because the device itself wasn't used to disintegrate her, with it instead being the Brigadier's Cybermen artillery that did the job.

Source: He's Just Hiding
Whatever the case is, the writers need a device to do a job at the character's behest, but don't want to bother showing what's going on in the device.

Source: Obfuscated Interface

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