Watch-jobber
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Watch-jobber is a noun meaning (obsolete, UK) A person who repairs and maintains watches.
Meaning
(obsolete, UK) A person who repairs and maintains watches.
More Meanings
- (obsolete, US) A merchant who sells watches on commission for a manufacturer.
Example Sentences
Between the High Street and the shingle beach, divided from the rest of the town by a drawbridge, was Portsmouth Point, ‘the Wapping of Portsmouth’, a picturesque, heterogeneous assemblage of taverns, liquor-shops, eating-houses, cook-shops, tailors, drapers, pawnbrokers, watch-jobbers, and trinket-merchants, backed by a warren of mean streets and alleys.
1881, Claudius Saunier, The Watchmakers’ Hand-Book, translated, revised and augmented by Julien Tripplin and Edward Rigg, London: J. Tripplin, Preface, p. vi, In recent years the work of the ordinary watch-jobber and repairer has undergone considerable change. The apprenticeship he serves, if indeed it can be called a real apprenticeship, is shorter than formerly.
Word Forms
- watch-jobbers
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include clock-jobber, watchmaker, wait, waiter, jobber, odd-jobber.
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