5 definitions
Jobs report (n.) is a monthly weather forecast for a storm that already happened.
Jobs report (n.) is the economy reduced to one number and then argued about in paragraphs.
Jobs report (n.) is the one Friday morning the stock market and the White House read the same page differently.
Jobs report (n.) is where last month gets quietly revised after everyone has already argued about it.
Jobs report (n.) is a number the winning party calls the economy and the losing party calls a statistic.