stockjobber

American  

[stok-job-er] / ˈstɒkˌdʒɒb ər /

noun

1. a stock salesperson, especially one who sells or promotes worthless securities.

2. British. a stock-exchange operator who acts as an intermediary between brokers.

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stockjobber British  

/ ˈstɒkˌdʒɒbə /

noun

1. 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

2. derogatory a stockbroker, esp one dealing in worthless securities

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Other Word Forms

• stockjobbery noun
• stockjobbing noun

Etymology

Origin of stockjobber

First recorded in 1620–30; stock + jobber

Example Sentences

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

No stockjobber on 'Change could go about his exciting work with more animating eagerness.

From The Bertrams by Trollope, Anthony

The stockjobber thus from 'Change Alley goes down,   And tips you the freeman a wink; Let me have but your vote to serve for the town,   And here is a guinea to drink.

From The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2 by Browning, William Ernst

Sometimes it is of noble birth; and sometimes the spawn of a stockjobber.

From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland I by Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting)

You may also become a stockjobber, possibly because a stockjobber's earnings cannot by any stretch of the imagination be regarded as the fruit of honest toil.

From A Knight on Wheels by Hay, Ian