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1748 I. Cousteil French Idiomatical & Crit. Vocab. 200 Un carosse de Remise, a Livery or Jobb Coach.

1751 F. Coventry Hist. Pompey the Little ii. vi. 175 He boasted every where how much better it was to hire Job-horses..than to run the hazard of Accidents by keeping them.

1767 Statute 7 Geo. III c. 44 in Statutes at Large (1771) X. 362 (margin) Licensed Jobb Coaches driven or let out to Hire, within the Weekly Bills.

1787 Times 12 July 2/3 Coach and harness-mender, buyer of job-carriages, &c.

1829 J. Haggard Rep. Cases Eccl. Courts 1 150 He was a little suspicious that they [sc. plants] were stolen by his job-gardener.

1835 Court Mag. 6 207/1 A job-doctor, or one whose engagement is likely to terminate with a particular service.

1879 Temple Bar Jan. 82 Count Fersen departed, and at the appointed time arrived with a job coach and horses which he had purchased.

1905 Times 9 Oct. 2/3 (advt.) To sell by auction..the job carriages and the whole of the valuable stock-in-trade.

1942 J. H. Powell Richard Rush iv. 82 There were job-horse men who held in government bonds more than a hundred thousand pounds, confectioners and woolen drapers who had even more.

1983 J. O'Donovan Wheels & Deals viii. 132 The traffic mix of mechanised and horse-drawn vehicles, including—600 outside cars, cabs and phaetons, 300 job carriages, 207 taxis, 103 buses and 22 charabancs, seemed specially designed for snarl-ups.

1993 Ann. Assoc. Amer. Geographers 83 108 Private gardening became somewhat of a fad and there arose a lively commercial nursery and job-gardener trade.