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noun

Jobber n.

One who works by the job.

A dealer in the public stocks or funds; a stockjobber. (Eng.)

One who buys goods from importers, wholesalers, or manufacturers, and sells to retailers.

One who turns official or public business to private advantage; hence, one who performs low or mercenary work in office, politics, or intrigue.

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Etymology of 'Jobber'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Jobber" Quotes from Famous Books

... itemized list of goods, or other property, with their value as estimated at the time. INVOICE BOOK. A book in which invoices are kept. JETTISON. Goods thrown overboard to lighten a ship in time of great danger. JOBBER. One who buys from the producer to sell to the retailer. JOB LOT. An irregular collection. Odds and ends unsold at the end of the season. JUDGMENT. The decision of a Court. LEASE. A contract granting ...

— Business Hints for Men and Women • Alfred Rochefort Calhoun

... the big clever gentleman catechizing certain quaint little rustic foreigners. He met one old man with a crabstick who told him his Welsh was almost as bad as his English, and a drover who had the advantage of him in decided opinions and a sense of superiority, and put him down as a pig-jobber; but these are exceptions. He is not unkind, but on the other hand he forgets that as a rule his size, his purse, and his remarkable appearance and qualities put his casual hosts very much at a disadvantage, and he is thus led to exaggerate ...

— George Borrow - The Man and His Books • Edward Thomas

... same paper which had been so prominent in sounding them through the western part of the State continued them as before, and, almost to the very day of his death, assailed him periodically as a "land jobber,'' "land grabber,'' and "land thief.'' But he took these foul attacks by tricky declaimers and his vindication by three of his most eminent fellow-citizens with the same serenity. That there was in ...

— Volume I • Andrew Dickson White

... week had gone before Skip had rivals. He caught Kedzie in deceptions. She kept him guessing, and the poor fool suffered the torments and thrills of jealousy. A flip young fellow named Hoke, agent for a jobber in ice-cream cones, and a tubby old codger named Kalteyer, who facetiously claimed to own a chewing-gum mine, were added competitors for Kedzie's smiles, while Skip teetered between homicide ...

— We Can't Have Everything • Rupert Hughes

... High Renaissance was conditioned by the demands of its patrons. There is nothing odd about that; it is a recognised stage in the rake's progress. The patrons of the Renaissance wanted plenty of beauty of the kind dear to the impressionable stock-jobber. Only, the plutocrats of the sixteenth century had a delicacy and magnificence of taste which would have made the houses and manners of modern stock-jobbers intolerable to them. Renaissance millionaires could be vulgar ...

— Art • Clive Bell

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