noun
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short for stockjobber
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a person who jobs
Etymology
Origin of jobber
Example Sentences
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Founder Dan Evins, a Tennessee oil jobber, envisioned a restaurant and retail operation themed around old-time country stores, where people gathered to play checkers on barrels once used to deliver crackers.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 25, 2025
Dan’s father, who had studied language and philosophy at Krakow University but had ended up a textile jobber in New York, did not approve of the enterprise, despite its fast start.
From The New Yorker • Sep. 6, 2018
But it wasn't all like that, according to Brian Winterflood, later the founder of Winterflood Securities, who had been a jobber at Greener Dreyfus since the 1950s.
From BBC • Oct. 26, 2016
In 1954, he started a jobber business, buying, selling and recycling fabric scraps.
From New York Times • Feb. 16, 2015
You may as well ask a loom which weaves huckaback, why it does not make cashmere, as expect poetry from this engineer or a chemical discovery from that jobber.
From The Voice of Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature Representative Prose and Verse by Various
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