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
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
Such a dearth of public spirit, and want of virtue, such stockjobbing, and fertility in all the low arts to obtain advantages of one kind or another ...
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
In addition to these independent enterprises, the telephone has unfortunately furnished an opportunity for stockjobbing schemes on a considerable scale.
From The Age of Big Business; a chronicle of the captains of industry by Burton Jesse Hendrick
