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
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 Horace Walpole
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 Adeline Sergeant
This scandalous bargain was duly signed and sealed, the stockjobber furthermore agreeing to settle upon his daughter, on the marriage-day, a fortune of several millions.
From Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 1 by Charles Mackay
Wasn't it a stockjobber who thought Botticelli was a cheese?
From Austin and His Friends by Frederic H. Balfour
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