Synonyms for jobbing
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : job |
| Phonetic Transcription : dÊ’É’b |
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
- 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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