单词 | jobbism |
释义 | jobbismn. Now rare. = jobbery n. 1. ΚΠ 1807 Jeffrey in Ld. Cockburn Life (1852) I. 177 I cannot dissemble my suspicions of jobbism. 1850 Freethinker's Mag. 1 July 63 There is about it the hue of Whig jobbism. 1968 Jrnl. Inst. Town Planners, India June–Sept. 28/1 In one State..the Planning Board has become a sort of super state cabinet. In another, it became the haven of sinecure jobbism to political favourites. 1975 Politics 10 107/1 One feels at times that the authors are being a little kind to caucus ‘democracy’ which all too often is merely jobbism and personal power aggrandisement. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1807 |
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