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  • noun Plural form of jobber.

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Examples

  • Honest, decent, pros but "jobbers" - and every Rangers fan in that stadium knew it.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Alan Smart 2009

  • Honest, decent, pros but "jobbers" - and every Rangers fan in that stadium knew it.

    Ma Dull Day at Hampden Alan Smart 2009

  • One hundred years ago, Greenpoint was teaming with "jobbers" - men who would pick up fresh, hot fish from smokehouses and deliver them by horse-drawn wagon to stores throughout the city.

    NY Post: News 2010

  • There are roughly 475 distributors, known as jobbers, who supply these stations and sometimes own them outright.

    BP Offers Financial Aid to Station Owners 2010

  • The competition unleashed by the move, which went into force in 1986, broke down a barrier that had helped keep the system stable: The separation of brokerage firms, which executed clients 'trades, from so-called jobbers, or securities firms that risked their own money by taking positions in stocks and bonds.

    'Big Bang' Pioneers Rethink Banking Overhaul 2009

  • "It is believed that general purpose drill bits are called jobbers as they are / were used for jobbing work."

    British Blogs 2009

  • "It is believed that general purpose drill bits are called jobbers as they are / were used for jobbing work."

    British Blogs 2009

  • Opposition fans are called "jobbers," there are homosexual references and Gary Roberts is their messiah.

    Archive 2008-05-01 James Mirtle 2008

  • The producers of thought, who are few, the "jobbers" of thought, who are many, and the retailers of thought, who are numberless, are so mixed up in the popular apprehension, that it would be hopeless to try to separate them before opinion has had time to settle.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858 Various

  • Contractors and "jobbers" used to besiege the offices of the Secretaries of War and Navy, and the venerable Welles (who reminded me of Abraham in the lithographs), and the barnacled Stanton, seldom appeared in public.

    Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War George Alfred Townsend 1877

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