| 单词 | to job off |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto job off c. transitive. To buy and sell (goods) as a middleman; to buy from one person and sell to another at a profit. to job off: to sell at very low prices. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > sell [verb (transitive)] > sell at low price undersell1647 discount1828 slaughter1896 to job off1903 1855 Times 21 May 7/5 Circular and Sutton goods..must now advance with the raw material, some of those who have jobbed their stocks off recklessly having failed. 1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. (at cited word) To job goods. 1890 W. Whitman in Pall Mall Gaz. 26 Aug. 7/2 The Essays are..jobb'd here by Scribners, New York. 1903 Lett. that bring Business 68 We have had some very unpleasant experiences in the past through our goods being held on consignment for months, and then jobbed off at suicidal prices. 1939 Fed. Trade Comm. Decisions 26 317 Where..jobbing services are rendered..nothing herein contained shall preclude jobber prices on that portion which is jobbed. 1955 Times 22 Aug. 7/6 Hard decisions are being taken about jobbing off as cattle fodder a million tons of surplus rice. 1996 Frontiers 22 23 Schweizer, a German immigrant,..had jobbed silver and turquoise to Navajo silversmiths. < as lemmas |
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