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  • noun Plural form of stockjobber.

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Examples

  • It doesn't seem fair that the CEOs and stockbrokers and stockjobbers who made out like bandits while they destroyed the economy are now assisted by Treasury to execute their getaway with a parachute of gold.

    Party Watchwords: Fairness and Fear 2010

  • It doesn't seem fair that the CEOs and stockbrokers and stockjobbers who made out like bandits while they destroyed the economy are now assisted by Treasury to execute their getaway with a parachute of gold.

    David Bromwich: Party Watchwords: Fairness and Fear 2010

  • Jefferson was always decrying the greed of the “stockjobbers” in NY.

    R.N.C. Deletes Comments on Obama Parody Site - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • It doesn't seem fair that the CEOs and stockbrokers and stockjobbers who made out like bandits while they destroyed the economy are now assisted by Treasury to execute their getaway with a parachute of gold.

    David Bromwich: Party Watchwords: Fairness and Fear 2008

  • And what they were afraid was that Hamilton's plan of -- of strengthening the -- the investing classes and strengthening the fiscal structure of the government was, in effect, giving large and undeserved bonuses to what they would call the stockjobbers.

    America Afire 2001

  • "You never heard such bellowing about the town of the state of the nation, especially among the sharpers, sellers of bearskins -- _i. e._ stockjobbers, &c."

    The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 George A. Aitken

  • Item, I forbid all n---- s and persons of q---- ty to watch bargains near and about the Exchange, to the diminution and wrong of the said stockjobbers.

    The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 George A. Aitken

  • Imprimis, I give to the stockjobbers about the Exchange of London, as a security for the trusts daily reposed in them, all my real estate; which

    The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 George A. Aitken

  • These books are written for the hard-hearted, to melt them into a softer mood for once before they congeal again -- as much music is written -- not for poets but for stockjobbers, to wring iron tears from them for once; that is the use of sorrowful art, to penetrate the thick hide of the obtuse, and I have grown to be a coward about pain.

    The Bed-Book of Happiness Harold Begbie 1900

  • Mère_; his sisters became Imperial Highnesses, with their several establishments of ladies-in-waiting; and Paris fluttered with excitement at each successive step upwards of expectant nobles, regicides, generals, and stockjobbers towards the central galaxy of the Corsican family, which, ten years before, had subsisted on the alms of the

    The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 1 of 2) John Holland Rose 1898

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