Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The practice or business of dealing in stocks or shares.
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Examples
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Did Dora's father bring his ` deals 'and stock-jobbery home, and expect Dora and her mother to feel an interest in them?
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He had long been used to seeing extensive and highly unflattering accounts of himself and his doings in print; but theretofore every open attack had been on some public matter where a newspaper "pounding" might be attributed to politics or stock-jobbery.
The Cost 1904
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It was said that such action would lead to speculation and stock-jobbery in buying up these debts and converting them into new forms.
The United States of America, Part 1 Edwin Erle Sparks 1892
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For another instant let me take the assertion that my motive in this crusade is personal gain through stock-jobbery, and that I have no aim or end in view other than that.
Frenzied Finance Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated Thomas William Lawson 1891
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He had long been used to seeing extensive and highly unflattering accounts of himself and his doings in print; but theretofore every open attack had been on some public matter where a newspaper "pounding" might be attributed to politics or stock-jobbery.
The Cost David Graham Phillips 1889
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'deals' and stock-jobbery home, and expect Dora and her mother to feel an interest in them?
The Man Between, an International Romance Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr 1875
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