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.

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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