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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Chiefly British A stock-exchange operator who deals only with brokers.
  • noun A stockbroker, especially an unscrupulous one.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who speculates in stocks for gain; one whose occupation is the purchase and sale of stocks or shares.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who speculates in stocks for gain; one whose occupation is to buy and sell stocks. In England a jobber acts as an intermediary between brokers.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun chiefly UK, trading A stock-exchange operator who deals only with brokers.
  • noun UK, pejorative, trading An unscrupulous stockbroker.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun one who deals only with brokers or other jobbers

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stock +‎ jobber

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