Meaning of Jobbing | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Buying and selling stocks or goods for profit; mercenary trading.
2. The fact or practice of using a public office or other position of trust for personal gain.
3. Work carried out by the job; piecework, odd-job work.

Equivalents

Examples

“It is through the power of Paris, now become the center and focus of jobbing, that the leaders of this faction direct, or rather command the whole legislative and the whole executive government.”

“We have not lost sight of the various proceedings, appointments, jobbings, &c, at University College.”

CEFR level