Word Finder - jobbing

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To do odd jobs or occasional work for hire.

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To work as a jobber.

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To take the loss.

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To buy and sell for profit, as securities; to speculate in.

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(often with out) To subcontract a project or delivery in small portions to a number of contractors.

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We wanted to sell a turnkey plant, but they jobbed out the contract to small firms.

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To seek private gain under pretence of public service; to turn public matters to private advantage.

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To strike or stab with a pointed instrument.

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To thrust in, as a pointed instrument.

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To hire or let in periods of service.

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to job a carriage

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Buying and selling stocks or goods for profit; mercenary trading.

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The fact or practice of using a public office or other position of trust for personal gain.

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Work carried out by the job; piecework, odd-job work.

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That does odd jobs; that works on occasional jobs as available.

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The jobbing foundryman has very little control over the nature of the jobs which come his way.

Alexandria is a distributing and jobbing centre for the north-east counties of Virginia.

Troy is the market for a fertile agricultural region, and the principal jobbing centre for a large district in north-eastern New York and eastern Massachusetts.

The city has a large jobbing and retail trade.

Beside the local trade of a rich surrounding farming country, the railway facilities of St Joseph have enabled it to build up a great jobbing trade (especially in dry goods), and this is still the greatest economic interest of the city.

Laredo is a jobbing centre for trade between the United States and Mexico, and is a sub-port of entry in the Corpus Christi Customs District.

Cedar Rapids has also a large grain trade and a large jobbing business, especially in dry goods, millinery, groceries, paper and drugs.

The city is situated in the midst of a rich agricultural region and is a supply centre for southern Kansas and Oklahoma, with large jobbing interests.

The city carries on a considerable jobbing business for the farming region of which it is the centre and produce market.

The city is in one of the most productive coal regions of the state, has a large jobbing trade, and is an important centre for the insurance business.

The city has a large jobbing trade, a coal supply from rich deposits in Pierce county, and abundant water-power from swift mountain streams, which is used for generating electricity for municipal and industrial use.

It is a shipping centre for a large wheat, fruit and cotton-raising region, and the principal jobbing market for northern Texas, Oklahoma and part of Louisiana, and the biggest distributing point for agricultural machinery in the South-west.

Carthage is a jobbing centre for a fruit and grain producing region; live-stock (especially harness horses) is raised in the vicinity; and among the city's manufactures are lime, flour, canned fruits, furniture, bed springs and mattresses, mining and quarrying machinery, ploughs and woollen goods.

Austin is the principal trade and jobbing centre for central and western Texas, is an important market for livestock, cotton, grain and wool, and has extensive manufactories of flour, cotton-seed oil, leather goods, lumber and wooden ware; the value of the factory product in 1905 was $1,569,353, being 105.2% more than in 1900.

It has cotton and knitting mills, cotton-seed oil factories, machine shops, and wagon, stove, plough and fertilizer factories; and is a market and jobbing centre for a fertile agricultural region.

The city has a considerable wholesale jobbing trade, and is an important point of shipment for the products of the agricultural country in the vicinity.

The city is a jobbing centre and wholesale market for a considerable area in southern Virginia and northern North Carolina, and is probably the largest loose-leaf tobacco market in the country, selling about 40,000,000 lb annually.

Small platen machines (worked by foot or tion power) used for the printing of cards, circulars and small jobbing or commercial work.

Madison is an important jobbing centre for central and south-western Wisconsin; it has an extensive trade in farm, garden and dairy products, poultry and tobacco; and there are various manufactures.

Oklahoma City's prosperity is due chiefly to its jobbing trade, with an extensive farming and stock-raising region, but it has also cotton compresses and cotton gins, and various manufactures.

The city has a large wholesale and jobbing trade.

Cumberland is an important jobbing centre also.

The jobbing was frightful, and is probably inseparable from wholesale operations of this kind.

Chattanooga is an important produce, lumber, coal and iron market, and is the principal trade and jobbing centre for a large district in Eastern Tennessee and Northern Georgia and Alabama.

The jobbing of land by the official clique, whose frequent intermarriages won for them the name of "The Family Compact," the undoubted grievance of the "Clergy Reserves" and the well-meaning high-handedness and social exclusiveness of military governors, who tried hard but unavailingly to stay the democratic wave, soon revived political discord, which found a voice in that born agitator, William Lyon Mackenzie.