stockjobbing
- a word derived from stockjobber.
Example Sentences
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Toward that end, he argued strenuously against restrictions on Wall Street stockjobbing and other forms of speculative gain.
From Slate ● Mar. 29, 2012
Let the strong roads absorb the weak; guard against the old game of stockjobbing, secret rebates, " milking" and " watering," but give the people the benefit of a trust without its monopoly privileges.
From Time Magazine Archive
This rural English couple managed to lose $55,-ooo, so they claim, in stockjobbing operations conducted by Jake the Barber in London.
From Time Magazine Archive
But his story was the most detailed report yet of the sordid state of influence peddling, political wangling and general stockjobbing into which the once-great RFC had fallen.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had begun stockjobbing in the smallest way, but had at a very early stage of his career developed a remarkable genius for this kind of traffic.
From The Lovels of Arden by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)
