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Synonyms for jobbing

Grammar : Verb

Spell : job

Phonetic Transcription : dʒɒb

Définition of jobbing

Origin : 1660s, "to buy and sell as a broker," from job (n.). Meaning "to cheat, betray" is from 1903. Related: Jobbed; jobbing.

As in farm out : verb contract out work

Example sentences :

Every one is in his favor but ——, who is jobbing for some one else.
Extract from : « The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete » by John Forster

There were four jobbing houses there in our line, but not one would buy.
Extract from : « A Man of Samples » by Wm. H. Maher

He was a jobbing tailor, and the bill was a matter of fourteen pounds.
Extract from : « Mrs. Halliburton's Troubles » by Mrs. Henry Wood

What characters do fonts of advertising and jobbing type include?
Extract from : « Type » by A. A. Stewart

The jobbing gardener said they were weeds, he would have turned them out.
Extract from : « The New Gulliver and Other Stories » by Barry Pain

Of these the worst and most dangerous is perhaps the jobbing gardener.
Extract from : « The New Gulliver and Other Stories » by Barry Pain

And on I went as slow and solemn and silly-looking and artful as a jobbing plumber.
Extract from : « Twelve Stories and a Dream » by H. G. Wells

My father was a jobbing builder, well known in Putney and Wandsworth.
Extract from : « The Great Adventure » by Arnold Bennett

The United States teem with jobbing lawyers, land speculators, and swindlers.
Extract from : « Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XII » by William Faux

The jobbing was frightful, and is probably inseparable from wholesale operations of this kind.
Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 14, Slice 7 » by Various

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