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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.

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.