jobbery
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of jobbery
Example Sentences
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If you were here I think I could, and would if I could, do a little jobbery on your account.
From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2019
Research published in 2011 by Victor Lapuente and Carl Dahlstrom of the University of Gothenburg, and Jan Teorell, of Lund University, looked at which features of a civil service cut jobbery.
From Economist ● Mar. 10, 2016
In 1910 he damned the Payne-Aldrich law as "a miserable travesty, an ill-designed patchwork, a piece of brazen legislative jobbery" and in 1932 he flayed the Hawley-Smoot act as "utterly disastrous to our trade."
From Time Magazine Archive
In all this stock jobbery, the newly invented telegraph serves the political and financial turn of the men in power so often that Stendhal sees the instrument as a symbol of corruption.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is not worth while to follow this local squabble further, except to notice the singular atmosphere of jobbery with which it was surrounded.
From Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections by Archibald Phillip Primrose Rosebery
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