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+### Job States
+
+The most common job states are (in alphabetical order):
+
+| Code | Job State     | Explanation                                                                                                                                                    |
+| :--: | :------------ | :------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| CA   | CANCELLED     | Job was explicitly cancelled by the user or system administrator.  The job may or may not have been initiated.                                                 |
+| CD   | COMPLETED     | Job has terminated all processes on all nodes with an exit code of zero.                                                                                       |
+| CG   | COMPLETING    | Job is in the process of completing. Some processes on some nodes may still be active.                                                                         |
+| F    | FAILED        | Job terminated with non-zero exit code or other failure condition.                                                                                             |
+| NF   | NODE_FAIL     | Job terminated due to failure of one or more allocated nodes.                                                                                                  |
+| OOM  | OUT_OF_MEMORY | Job experienced out of memory error.                                                                                                                           |
+| PD   | PENDING       | Job is awaiting resource allocation.                                                                                                                           |
+| PR   | PREEMPTED     | Job terminated due to preemption.                                                                                                                              |
+| R    | RUNNING       | Job currently has an allocation.                                                                                                                               |
+| RQ   | REQUEUED      | Completing job is being requeued.                                                                                                                              |
+| SI   | SIGNALING     | Job is being signaled.                                                                                                                                         |
+| TO   | TIMEOUT       | Job terminated upon reaching its time limit.                                                                                                                   |
+
 ## Modifying Jobs
 
 In general: