stockjobber
Americannoun
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a stock salesperson, especially one who sells or promotes worthless securities.
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British. a stock-exchange operator who acts as an intermediary between brokers.
noun
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Often shortened to: jobber. (formerly) a wholesale dealer on a stock exchange who sold securities to brokers without transacting directly with the public See also market maker
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derogatory a stockbroker, esp one dealing in worthless securities
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The female is the daughter of a U. S. stockjobber, the late Jay Gould?the present Anna, Marquise de Talleyrand Perigord, Duchesse de Sagan.
From Time Magazine Archive
These were Prior, the prosperous City coffee importer, and Lang, the stockjobber, well known in his own circle as an amateur prestidigitator.
From A Voyage to Arcturus by Lindsay, David
No stockjobber on 'Change could go about his exciting work with more animating eagerness.
From The Bertrams by Trollope, Anthony
The Rads have got hold of a stockjobber who is good for a thousand, and Maltman says they cannot fight him with less than that.
From Name and Fame A Novel by Sergeant, Adeline
Lately indeed we heard that the King of Spain had abdicated; but I believe it was some stockjobber that had deposed him.
From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 by Walpole, Horace
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