diff --git a/spring-batch-docs/src/main/asciidoc/job.adoc b/spring-batch-docs/src/main/asciidoc/job.adoc
index 26f528836..40911e6ab 100644
--- a/spring-batch-docs/src/main/asciidoc/job.adoc
+++ b/spring-batch-docs/src/main/asciidoc/job.adoc
@@ -996,7 +996,7 @@ after these are considered to be job parameters, are turned into a JobParameters
 and must be in the format of 'name=value'.
 
 [role="xmlContent"]
-The following example shows a date passed as a job parameter to a job defied in XML:
+The following example shows a date passed as a job parameter to a job defined in XML:
 
 [source, role="xmlContent"]
 ----