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jobbing

/ ˈdʒɒbɪŋ /

adjective

  1. working on occasional jobs or by the piece rather than in a regular job

    a jobbing gardener



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Even in his final interview, with Dawkins, he described himself as a "jobbing hack."

This and his "Denunciation of Stock-jobbing" made great impression on the public mind.

When we arrived at Posen we took up our quarters in the Jewish poorhouse, the master of which was a poor jobbing tailor.

Its half-acre of pleasure ground—attended to by a jobbing gardener once a week—was trim and flowery.

The overweening ambition of the great cities to monopolize the jobbing trade, regardless of distance, has already been discussed.

And, in the second place, it hinges upon the relation between carload ratings and the development of local jobbing business.

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