| 单词 | land-jobber |
| 释义 | > as lemmasland-jobber land-jobber n. one who makes a business of buying and selling land on speculation. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trader > traders or dealers in specific articles > [noun] > in land and property housemonger1604 land-jobber1745 estate agent1880 realtor1916 1745 J. Swift Direct. to Servants 74 Let him be at Home to none but.. a Land-Jobber, or his Inventor of new Funds. 1777 J. Adams Wks. (1850) II. 436 Landjobbers, speculators in land. 1789 J. Morse Amer. Geogr. 261 The governors were many of them land-jobbers. 1808 T. Ashe Trav. Amer. x. 90 A few sordid monopolizers called land jobbers. 1833 J. B. Wyeth Oregon 35 The New England land-jobbers were in their bargains too hard for the torpid Dutchman. 1876 G. Bancroft Hist. U.S. (rev. ed.) IV. xv. 419 A physician, land-jobber, and subservient political intriguer. < as lemmas |
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