jobbingn.1
/ˈdʒɒbɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈdʒɑbɪŋ/ Now rare.
The action of job v.1; the action or an act of stabbing, thrusting, pecking, etc.In quot. a1795: the action of kissing; cf. to job faces at job v.1 Phrases.
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the world > movement > impact > striking > striking in specific manner > [noun] > striking with pushing action
purringa1398
jobbinga1578
thrusting1794
the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > making holes or becoming holed > [noun] > by boring, piercing, or perforating > with sharp-pointed instrument
stickingeOE
stabbingc1425
steeking1488
jobbinga1578
spitting1623
probing1665
impunction1712
spiking1775
skewering1794
jagging1815
pierce1820
eyelet holing1845
a1578 J. Heywood Witty & Witless 74 in Two Moral Interludes (1991) 21 The sot hathe by Iollynge & Iobbynge and other lyke skathe extreme payne wythe extremyte of yere.
1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. ii. v. 119 When it eats, it doth not hold its meat in one foot, like other Parrots, but picks up its meat with its Bill by jobbing.
a1735 Earl of Haddington 40 Select Poems (1753) 49 Silly Robin, Who thought that, by his weekly jobbing, He in his wife had rais'd this tumour.
a1795 Robin Hood & Maid Marian xiv, in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1888) III. v. cl. 219/2 With kind embraces, and jobbing of faces.
1814 Sporting Mag. 44 71 His adversary was not to be pinked away by left-handed jobbing.
1889 R. S. S. Baden-Powell Pigsticking 82 No jobbing or spurring would induce the horse to move.
1924 Chambers's Jrnl. Nov. 715/2 Keep thy ears skinned or I'll give thee a jobbin'.
Compounds
General attributive, as jobbing-knife, jobbing-spear.
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the world > movement > impact > striking > striking in specific manner > [adjective] > striking with pushing action
jobbing1831
1831 Sporting Mag. Mar. 322/1 The jobbing spear must always excite the utmost rage of the boar.
1870 tr. E. Erckmann & P. A. Chatrian Waterloo Blockade Phalsburg in C. Gibbon Casquet of Lit. 122 These men with their jobbing-knives in their leather belts.
1889 R. S. S. Baden-Powell Pigsticking 89 Two kinds of spear are used in India, the long or ‘underhand’ spear, and the short or ‘jobbing’ spear.
1929 Chambers's Jrnl. May 332/1 I have always used the long spear as distinguished from the jobbing or short spear.
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jobbingn.2
/ˈdʒɒbɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈdʒɑbɪŋ/ 1. The act or practice of buying and selling goods or stocks in order to profit; the work of a jobber.Recorded earliest in wool jobbing n. at wool n. Additions.
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society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [noun]
jobbing1606
stock-jobbing1692
stockbroking1792
stockholding1830
stockbrokerage1837
stockbrokery1874
agiotage1880
stock-jobbery1882
1606 R. Bowyer Diary 1 May in Parl. Diary (1931) 141 Sir Edw[ard] Hobby brought his Councell to the Barr to shew Cause why certaine Letters Patents made unto him for Wooll jobbing and brogging, should be no Grievance.
1710 Coll. Poems for & against Dr. Sacheverell III. 13 Stocks fall, and Jobbing ceases, They'll lend no Money, as the Case is.
1735 Visct. Bolingbroke Lett. Study Hist. (1752) ii. 39 Amassing immense estates by the management of funds, by trafficking in paper, and by all the arts of jobbing.
1754 Ess. Manning Fleet 34 Regulations..to prevent..the Monopoly of Tickets, and the..jobbing of them.
1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 170 The jobbing of the public funds. View more context for this quotation
1825 W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1826) I. 174 Forced to an undue price by the arts of jobbing.
1849 J. Francis Chron. & Char. Stock Exchange (1850) xv. 108 As a theatre for jobbing, it interfered with the bank.
1867 Eighty Years' Progress U.S. II. 268/2 Their most important business is the jobbing of books to booksellers around the country.
1904 Times 12 Oct. 2/5 The bulk of it [sc. loss of profit] was attributable to the jobbing of goods.
1951 Southern Econ. Jrnl. 17 512 A generation ago the jobbing of manufactured goods to North Carolina was done chiefly from Baltimore and Richmond.
2004 S. Quinn in R. Floud & P. Johnson Cambr. Econ. Hist. Mod. Brit. (2006) I. vi. 172 Many canal companies discouraged speculation and jobbing of shares by limiting the amount of shares any one person could hold.
2. The act or practice of turning a public office or a position of trust to personal gain or political advantage; the use of something corruptly or unscrupulously for personal gain; jobbery.
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society > occupation and work > business affairs > [noun] > a business transaction > which sacrifices public interest > perpetration of
botchery1624
jobbing1693
job work1731
jobbery1769
jobmongering1901
1693 T. D'Urfey Richmond Heiress iv. i. 35 Whilst his City Iobbing he's pursuing, I'll shew him where's another Iobb a doing.
1717 D. Dalrymple Laws & Judicature Scotl. 61 Every Reader acquainted with the Genius of this corrupted Age, will readily think the Spirit of Jobbing will find some Corner to fix on.
1780 A. Young Tour Ireland ii. ix. 41 Lists and tables of the names of all persons who have obtained presentments,..should be given freely by the jurymen, to all their acquaintance, that every man might know, to whose carelessness or jobbing, the public was indebted for bad roads.
a1806 J. Barry in R. N. Wornum Lect. on Painting (1848) 166 The influence, and jobbing, by which the doing of them is obtained.
1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Alice I. iii. i. 232 No jobbing was too gross for him. He was shamefully corrupt in the disposition of his patronage.
1861 T. E. May Constit. Hist. Eng. I. vi. 322 The costly..contracts, which this system of Parliamentary jobbing encouraged.
1921 J. Bryce Mod. Democracies II. xliii. 110 What lessons are to be drawn from these scandals—the thefts from the city treasury, the jobbing of contracts [etc.].
1973 G. Barnard Pope Introd. 3 Pope's ideals were..deeply antipathetic to the venality and political jobbing of Hanoverian England.
1997 Amer. Spectator (Nexis) Nov. Robinson's foes accused her of the kind of elitist jobbing of the legal system that has wrought so much harm in the country where she learned it.
3.
a. Work done by the job, piecework; odd-jobbing; the action of doing this.Recorded earliest in jobbing work.
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society > occupation and work > working > [noun] > doing odd jobs
jobbing1864
hob-jobbing1873
odd-jobbing1897
1735 B. Langley Builder’s Vade-mecum p. iv 'Tis very rarely seen, that few or any of them [sc. young men in the building-trade] know more than Jobbing-work.
1779 State of Facts Greenwich Hosp. 30 This has probably been the most laborious and expensive cure of a smoky Chimney in the Records of Jobbing.
1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. x. 105 Able to do much useful jobbing.
1864 H. James Let. 23 Apr. in Ann. Rep. Educ. Comm. Freedmen App. 73 Quite a number of negroes own a horse and dray, and make a good living by jobbing of different kinds.
1900 in J. R. Commons Trade Unionism & Labor Probl. xxix. 420 General jobbing, automobile and gray-iron castings.
1946 Times 8 May 10/5 (advt.) Chief Engineer.., wide executive experience in jobbing and mass production of heavy-light electrical-mechanical products.
2003 D. Hickey Whitman iii. 43 Connell..labored in general jobbing with a specialty in fine horseshoeing.
b. Printing. The action of printing small pieces of miscellaneous work. Cf. job n.2 2b.Recorded earliest in compounds.
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society > communication > printing > printing specific type of work > [noun] > small or miscellaneous work
job work1798
job printing1817
job print1825
jobbing1841
1800 Doncaster Corpor. Acct. in J. Tomlinson Doncaster (1887) 255 For sundries as per jobbing bill.
1829 D. Weir Hist. Town of Greenock 97 Printing..was, till of late years, carried on here almost entirely in hand-bills, jobbing, &c.
1841 W. Savage Dict. Art of Printing 428 Jobbing is an extensive business in London.
1861 Bookseller 26 Oct. (advt.) The Founts of Type are..adapted for..every description of First-class Jobbing and Bookwork.
1943 Times 13 Oct. 5/5 ‘Printer's paper’..for the legitimate needs of jobbing and miscellaneous printing.
1960 P. M. Handover Printing in London vii. 173 The range of jobbing is so great that it would be possible to confine the following pages to a single subject, such as printed games.
2006 R. Hollis Swiss Graphic Design i. 24/1 This style in Germany was in general known as Akzidenz Grotesk (Akzidenz meaning everyday jobbing or commercial printing).
c. The action of hiring out a horse, carriage, etc., for a particular job, or for a limited time. Cf. job v.2 5. Now historical and rare.Recorded earliest in jobbing line. Cf. jobbing master n.
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society > trade and finance > buying > hiring or renting > [noun] > hire of a horse
horse-hire1464
jobbing1842
1842 Times 25 Feb. 9/5 (advt.) Premises..for 15 to 20 horses..in the jobbing and dealing line.
1844 Times 28 Oct. 1/6 Fashionable carriages,..with very low prices for purchase or jobbing attached.
1894 Independent (N.Y.) 31 May 4/1 There will still be jobbing of carriages, but none of horses.
1948 H. McCausland Eng. Carriage iv. 80 Many people found the system of jobbing preferable to maintaining their own carriages.
Compounds
C1. General attributive, as jobbing account, jobbing market, jobbing shop, jobbing system, etc.
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society > trade and finance > selling > hiring or letting out > [adjective]
jobbing1735
1735Jobbing-work [see sense 3a].
1761 T. Mortimer Every Man his own Broker ii. 67 I entreat those who have never entered the Alley, never to frequent it on a jobbing account.
1801 Edinb. Mag. Oct. 289/1 The rise or fall of the funds is regulated by the jobbing accounts.
1835 J. Wade Black Bk. (new ed.) iv. 205 Ministers having been frequently rated concerning this jobbing fund, an act was passed, in 1825, prohibiting the grant of pensions from it in the future.
1842Jobbing line [see sense 3c]. 1870 J. K. Medbery Men & Myst. Wall St. 166 Mr Fisk's maturity dates with his entrance as partner in a well-known Boston Jobbing-house.
1873 J. Richards On Arrangem. Wood-working Factories 144 A planing, moulding, and general jobbing machine.
1889 Daily News 6 Dec. 3/1 Out of this post-horse system..has grown this jobbing system, which is revolutionizing the customs of all who ‘keep their gig’.
1913 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 22 Feb. 30/2 The volume is large and the profits are variable,..though this is perhaps fully as true of the retail as of the wholesale and jobbing trades.
1921 M. L. Stecker in J. R. Commons Trade Unionism & Labor Probl. xxvii. 422 The foundries vary in size from small jobbing shops employing only half a dozen molders to the huge establishments.
1952 A. I. Richards Econ. Devel. Tribal Change 120 The go-as-you-please of this kind of jobbing labour probably accounts for its popularity among immigrants.
1983 B. A. K. Rider Insider Trading iii. 149 The present jobbing system could not continue in an environment which required instantaneous disclosure of trading information, for the jobbers' trading positions would thus be exposed and their books undermined.
2001 HFN (Nexis) 9 Apr. 18 There are things that we bring out that we are thinking in terms of the jobbing market as well as the retail market.
C2. attributive. Printing. In sense 3b, as jobbing press, jobbing printing, jobbing type, jobbing work, etc. Cf. job printing n. at job n.2 Compounds 2c.
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1800*Jobbing bill [see sense 3b].
1828 Times 19 July 2/1 (advt.) To printers' warehousemen.—wanted, a steady respectable man, for a constant situation: one who has been used to a jobbing house would be preferred.
1872 Printers' Register Apr. 114/1 The difficulty often experienced in laying Jobbing Founts.
1892 A. Powell Southward's Pract. Printing (ed. 4) vi. 41 Jobbing Type is so called because it is used for ‘jobs’, i.e., for work like cards, circulars, letter headings, and advertisements.
1924 Southward's Mod. Printing (ed. 5) I. li. 328 Jobbing work is a term applied to every kind of printing except book-work and newspaper work.
1960 G. A. Glaister Gloss. Bk. 204/1 Jobbing types, types used for jobbing printing.
1973 Times Lit. Suppl. 7 Dec. 1500/3 These principles underlie the construction of most of the presses now operating, from jobbing presses to the largest newspaper machine.
2006 Print Week (Nexis) 15 June 30 He's very pleased with the Kimosetter for jobbing work such as leaflets, business cards, letterheads and invitations.
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jobbingadj.
/ˈdʒɒbɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈdʒɑbɪŋ/ That jobs (in various senses).† 2. That uses a position of trust or a public office to secure personal gain or political advantage; given to jobbery. Obsolete.
1. That does odd jobs; employed by the job; employed in odd or occasional pieces of work. Frequently (esp. in later use) depreciatively implying reduced quality and a lack of commitment.
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society > occupation and work > work > [adjective] > other types of work
gentlea1425
rurala1500
jobbing1705
universal1706
non-paying1843
sweated1883
unfair1886
direct1922
entry-level1949
sidebar1952
front end1976
intrapreneurial1978
society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to conditions > [adjective] > hired by the job
occasional1654
jobbing1705
1705 D. Defoe Double Welcome 26 A starving Mercenary Priest, A Jobbing, Hackney, Vicious Pulpit Jest.
1746 T. Langley Builder's Jewel (1757) Introd. sig. Aij Apprentices..bound to Jobbing Masters, who know but little.
1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 2nd Ser. 154 A jobbing-man—carpet-beater and so forth.
1850 Beck's Florist 298 I never had a jobbing gardener that did not want to get in the saddle himself, and put you on the pillion.
1881 F. Young Every Man his own Mechanic §187 It is an easy matter..to find a jobbing carpenter.
1935 G. Blake Shipbuilders viii. 244 The jobbing man who came about the place had enough to do to keep the lawns and paths and borders in trim.
1955 Mod. Lang. Rev. 50 41 Toby Veck is a ‘ticket-porter’ and, in his way, also a jobbing workman.
1987 Financial Times (Nexis) 14 Nov. (Weekend section) 1 Mixed [art] shows, where you push through the work of jobbing artists for a smaller commission but even less commitment.
2002 M. Gayle Dinner for Two 11 You should never believe anything you read in a magazine because it's all written by people like us—jobbing journalists who..are as clueless and lacking direction as the rest of the world.
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society > occupation and work > business affairs > [adjective] > sacrificing public interest
jobbing1717
jobbish1792
1717 E. Ward Brit. Wonders 43 Believing Fools with Lying News; Who make themselves the Tools and Slaves Of Cunning, Cheating, Jobbing Knaves.
1792 E. Burke Corr. (1844) IV. 27 The sentiments of the nation must finally decide the dispute between them and the jobbing ascendancy.
1827 Times 27 Oct. 2/2 There should be no jobbing middlemen for the management of Scotland—that is, for its degradation into a family borough.
a1859 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. (1861) V. 70 Covered with the mansions of his jobbing courtiers.
1873 J. S. Mill Autobiogr. vi. 193 A jobbing and borné local oligarchy.
3. That buys and sells as a middleman.
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society > trade and finance > brokerage > [adjective] > broking
broking1593
jobbing1851
1851 A. Forbes & J. W. Greene Rich Men Mass. 15 Jobbing merchant—the most extensive in the city.
1896 Proc. New-Eng. Hist. Geneal. Soc. 105 He was one of the prominent jobbing merchants of this city.
1902 Jrnl. Polit. Econ. 10 538 A person who had bought goods from a San Francisco jobbing merchant.
1939 F. W. Taussig Princ. Econ. (ed. 4) II. lxv. 457 This policy would have been difficult to carry out had it sold to jobbing wholesalers.
1998 Independent 13 June (Weekend section) 6/4 ‘How about £500 for the two?’ he asked a Welsh jobbing dealer who had cheaply bought five large canvasses from the Cardiff Coal Exchange in 1968.
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