stockjobber
noun
a stock salesperson, especially one who sells or promotes worthless securities.
stockjobbing
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a word derived from
stockjobber.
Example Sentences
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Toward that end, he argued strenuously against restrictions on Wall Street stockjobbing and other forms of speculative gain.
From Slate ● Mar. 29, 2012
The U. S. aviation industry's first stockjobbing scandal broke open last week.
From Time Magazine Archive
This rural English couple managed to lose $55,-ooo, so they claim, in stockjobbing operations conducted by Jake the Barber in London.
From Time Magazine Archive
But his story was the most detailed report yet of the sordid state of influence peddling, political wangling and general stockjobbing into which the once-great RFC had fallen.
From Time Magazine Archive
So ill informed were the numerous writers who, at a later period, ascribed to the national debt the existence of stockjobbing and of all the immoralities connected with stockjobbing.
From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
