Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Doing chance work or odd jobs.
- adjective Using opportunities of public service for private gain.
- adjective [U.S.] a mercantile establishment which buys from importers, wholesalers or manufacturers, and sells to retailers.
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- verb Present participle of
job .
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Examples
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Rankin resides in our village of Littleborough, and is by trade what is known as a jobbing gardener.
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The apprentices on Thornton, are what is termed a jobbing gang, that is, they are hired out by their master to any planter who may want their services.
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I am told that there is one part of their business very laborious, digging holes for the receiving of cane-plants, which I have not as yet seen; but this does not occupy above a month at the utmost, at two periods of the year; and on my estate this service is chiefly performed by extra negroes, hired for the purpose; which, although equally hard in the hired negroes (called a jobbing gang), at least relieves my own, and after all puts even the former on much the same footing with English day-labourers.
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Lap 41: "What the **** do you mean by 'jobbing'?" retorts jobbing comedian Josh Widdicombe.
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If you are a 'jobbing' scientist working on the African HIV issue, I might take you seriously.
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There, my mother ran a small retail "dry goods" store, while my father engaged in a succession of mostly unsuccessful "jobbing" ventures.
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How they are supplied with the book, posted as to its merits, and enabled to take care of whatever demands arise, is the wholesale, or "jobbing," side of book selling.
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Or if to the respectable conclave above-stairs, who would have recoiled indignantly at the vulgar word "jobbing," had been hinted a phrase – which ran oddly in and out of the nooks of my brain, keeping time to the murmur in the street, "Vox populi, vox dei" – truly, I should have got little credit for my Latinity.
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He himself was in the "jobbing" line, and was always jogging about in a cart, in the hind part of which, covered with a net, was a calf or a couple of pigs.
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"Oh, well," said the man vaguely, "it's hard to estimate on this kind of jobbing work."
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