Jobbing
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Jobbing is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of job.
Meaning
present participle and gerund of job.
More Meanings
- Buying and selling stocks or goods for profit; mercenary trading.
- The fact or practice of using a public office or other position of trust for personal gain.
- Work carried out by the job; piecework, odd-job work.
- That does odd jobs; that works on occasional jobs as available.
Example Sentences
The jobbing foundryman has very little control over the nature of the jobs which come his way.
We have not lost sight of the various proceedings, appointments, jobbings, &c, at University College.
His performance in Dr No in 1962 set the jobbing actor and former milkman on a path that would lead to Hollywood stardom and all its trappings.
It is through the power of Paris, now become the center and focus of jobbing, that the leaders of this faction direct, or rather command the whole legislative and the whole executive government.
Word Forms
- jobbings
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include stockjobbing, mongering, trade, merchandise, tradership, agiotage.
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