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Synonyms for jobbed

Grammar : Verb
Spell : job
Phonetic Transcription : dÊ’É’b

Définition of jobbed

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 :
  • It was a creditor in the shape of the man of whom she jobbed her carriages.
  • Extract from : « Nana, The Miller's Daughter, Captain Burle, Death of Olivier Becaille » by Emile Zola
  • If there is an election to be jobbed, it is S. Behrman who manipulates it.
  • Extract from : « The Octopus » by Frank Norris
  • They did not so much mind if the horse got wet, for the horse was jobbed; but the brougham was their own.
  • Extract from : « Small Souls » by Louis Couperus
  • The horse was jobbed; the coachman did not count: he was only a man.
  • Extract from : « Small Souls » by Louis Couperus
  • Florence, like Venice, and other Italian republics, jobbed her wars.
  • Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 1, Issue 2, December, 1857 » by Various
  • We jobbed our bayonets under the lager-beer counter, to provide for the case of any lurking foe in that quarter.
  • Extract from : « The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 » by Various
  • Say that if it so please them, these old ruins are my property, and are not to be jobbed out to the insolence of public curiosity.
  • Extract from : « Alice, or The Mysteries, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  • Than I jobbed aroun' town three years doin' this an' that an' the other.
  • Extract from : « Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume II, Arkansas Narratives, Part 2 » by Work Projects Administration
  • Just as much mine as if I jobbed it from Tilbury's, begad, for thirty pound a month.
  • Extract from : « The History of Pendennis » by William Makepeace Thackeray
  • And what I didn't do, I jobbed out, that is, I gave out to gunsmiths.
  • Extract from : « Warren Commission (10 of 26): Hearings Vol. X (of 15) » by The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy

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