Traditionally, jobs not essential to a business's profitability are the first to be cut.

Once parents and educators signed it, they could leave each other to their own, equally essential jobs.

The Met's essential job is to preserve art of the past for the future.

Only those civilians with essential jobs were allowed to stay.

This meant that only those civilians with essential jobs were allowed to stay.

His is an essential job, classified in the "somebody's got to do it" category.

Only those in essential public-service jobs were expected to go to work.

The agency is doing a good and essential job.

The first essential job is to undertake an evaluation exercise.

On the other hand, we must make sure that we do not lose any essential jobs.