1) Computing terminology 
Job control in computing refers to the control of multiple tasks or Jobs on a computer system, ensuring that they each have access to adequate resources to perform correctly, that competition for limited resources does not cause a deadlock where two or more jobs are unable to complete, resolving such situations where they do occur, and terminating...[Unix] On operating systems that support executing multiple processes in parallel or in series (batch processing), job control refers to the orchestration of multiple batch jobs. ==Unix shell== When using Unix or related operating systems via a terminal, a user will initially only have a single process running, their login shell. Most tasks...
[n] - a program that is called to prepare each job to be run
noun a program that is called to prepare each job to be run