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Webster 1913 Edition
Jobber
Job′ber
,Noun.
1.
One who works by the job.
2.
A dealer in the public stocks or funds; a stockjobber.
[Eng.]
3.
One who buys goods from importers, wholesalers, or manufacturers, and sells to retailers.
4.
One who turns official or public business to private advantage; hence, one who performs low or mercenary work in office, politics, or intrigue.
Webster 1828 Edition
Jobber
JOB'BER
,Noun.
1.
A dealer in the public stocks or funds; usually called a stock-jobber.2.
One who engages in a low, lucrative affair.Definition 2024
jobber
jobber
English
Noun
jobber (plural jobbers)
- (archaic) One who works by the job and recruit other people(as in the 19th Century).
- (business) An intermediary who buys and sells merchandise.
- (US, business) A type of intermediary in the apparel industry, as well as others, who buys excess merchandise from brand owners and manufacturers, and sells to retailers at prices that are 20-70% below wholesale. Because of the negative connotations of the word "jobber," they are now referred to by the more politically-correct term - "Off-price specialists."
- (Britain, finance) A market maker on the stock exchange
- (obsolete, Britain, finance) A promoter or broker of stocks for investment.
- An act to restrain the number and ill practice of brokers and stock jobbers: 8 & 9 Wm. 3, ch. 32 (1697) [legislation of English parliament]
- (professional wrestling slang) a performer whose primary role is to lose to established talent.
- A thing (often used in a vague way to refer to something the name of which one cannot recall).
Synonyms
- (wrestling): jabroni