Jobber

Quick meaning: Jobber is a noun meaning (theater) An actor temporarily employed for a specific role, often in a touring company.

Meaning

(theater) An actor temporarily employed for a specific role, often in a touring company.

More Meanings

1. An intermediary who buys and sells merchandise.
2. (professional wrestling slang) A performer whose primary role is to lose to established talent.
3. (printing) A job press or platen press.
4. (archaic) One who works by the job (i.e. paid per individual piece of work) and/or recruits other people for such work.
5. (obsolete, UK, finance) A promoter or broker of stocks for investment.
6. (slang) A thing (often used in a vague way to refer to something the name of which one cannot recall).

Example Sentences

Jobbers are used as needed.

In the Mills there existed a usage under which a worker was first appointed as a Cleaner then an Oiler and thereafter promoted as a Jobber.

An act to restrain the number and ill practice of brokers and stock jobbers: 8 & 9 Wm. 3, ch. 32 (1697) [legislation of English parliament]

We will say "I would rather be an expressman hauling tobacco, cigarettes, et cetera, than be a jobber of such commodities," especially in the city of Boston at the present writing.

Word Forms

• jobbers

Synonyms for jobber

Depending on context, synonyms include middleman, broker, jabroni, widget, hickey, gizmo.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include wholesaler, middleman, distributor, intermediary, intermediate, interim.

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