| 单词 | road jobber |
| 释义 | > as lemmasroad jobber ΚΠ 1807 T. James Statist. Surv. County of Kildare v. 39 Conservators..form a good defence against the tricks of road-jobbers. The keeping roads in repair by contract..degenerates into a job, and at the end of contract the county must repair the road anew. 1817 Sporting Mag. 50 30 The profits of the Road Jobbers, namely the Guards and Drivers of Mail and other Coaches, will be at an end. 1846 T. Skilling Sci. & Pract. Agric. xvii. 170 They [sc. farmers] are horse-jobbers, road-jobbers, cow-jobbers, pig-jobbers, anything that will divert them off their farms. 1898 Baily's Mag. Feb. 112/2 Every man's knowledge of the roads was local only, and..they were often the prey of the road jobbers. < as lemmas |
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