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▪ I. jobber1 dial.|ˈdʒɒbə(r)|
[f. job v.1 + -er1.]
One who or that which ‘jobs’, pecks, pokes, thrusts, etc.: see quots. and cf. nut-jobber.
1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong s.v. Grimpereau, Some do call that birde a nut iobber. 1868Atkinson Cleveland Gloss., Jobber, a small spade or iron tool for cutting up thistles from their roots.
▪ II. jobber2|ˈdʒɒbə(r)|
[f. job v.2 + -er1.]
1. One who does jobs or odd pieces of work; one employed to do a job; a hack; one employed by the job, as distinguished from one continuously engaged and paid wages; a piece-worker.
1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Jobb, a small piece of Work. Jobber, he that undertakes such Jobbs. 1733Swift On Poetry 312 These are not a thousandth part Of jobbers in the poet's art. 1791–1823D'Israeli Cur. Lit., B. Jonson on Transl., Our translators have usually been the jobbers of booksellers. 1803W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. I. 424 Sailors and soldiers are improvident for the same reason as jobbers in a manufactory. 1841D'Israeli Amen. Lit. (1867) 523 To this humiliated state of jobbers of old plays, were reduced the most glorious names.
2. One who lets out horses, etc. on hire for a particular job, or for a period; a job-master.
1848Thackeray Van. Fair xxxvii, Nobody in fact was paid. Not the blacksmith who opened the lock;..nor the jobber who let the carriage. 1872Daily News 25 Mar., The Hampstead donkey drivers and Greenwich mule jobbers.
3. One who buys goods, etc. in bulk from the producer or importer, and sells them to retail dealers, or to consumers; a broker, a middleman; a small trader or salesman.
In many compounds, as house-, land-jobber, etc., q.v.
1670Act 22 & 23 Chas. II, c. 2 §2 Jobber, Salesman or other Broker or Factor, who doe or shall commonly buy or sell Cattell for others. c1680Popish Plot 1 They have 100000l. in ready Money..used in Trade by Graziers, Jobbers, and Bankers. 1769De Foe's Tour Gt. Brit. I. 245 A Fair for Cattle and Lambs,..of late..much lessened in that respect, owing principally to the Jobbers about Horsham, who ingross great Numbers and send them to Smithfield Market. 1805R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. (1807) II. 659 What the Yorkshire jobbers call runts. 1862Merivale Rom. Emp. (1865) III. xxvi. 216 Ventidius..had been for a time a jobber of beasts of burden to the public officers. 1887Jessopp Arcady vii. 213 In Norfolk a cattle dealer is commonly called a jobber. 1898Archæol. Jrnl. LV. 186 One of the Irish jobbers who every autumn bring over Irish bred geese for sale to the farmers to fatten on their stubbles against Christmas.
4. A member of the Stock Exchange, who deals in stocks or shares on his own account; one who acts as a middleman between holders and buyers of stocks or shares; a stock-jobber; called, in the Stock Exchange itself, a dealer.
1719(title) The Anatomy of Exchange Alley..by a Jobber. 1720Swift Fates Clergymen Wks. 1755 II. ii. 28 Acquainted with jobbers in Change-alley. 1812L. Hunt in Examiner 14 Sept. 577/1 This is one of the old tricks of the Stock-jobbers... But the jobbers do not appear to have thought it worth their while. 1897Daily News 27 Sept. 6/6 The jobber exists to create a free market in securities... If the jobber were eliminated the trouble and worry of the broker would be so much increased that he would be forced at least to double his commissions.
5. One who improperly uses a public office, trust, or service for private gain or party advantage; a perpetrator of corrupt jobs.
1739J. Hildrop Lett. Commandm. 18 An absolute Discouragement to all Sorts of Jobbers, Gamesters, Fortune-hunters, and Jockeys. a1745Swift Corr. (1766) III. 299 Every squire, almost to a man, is..a racker of his tenants; a jobber of all public works. 1794G. Rose Diaries (1860) I. 194 He is an atrocious jobber. 1885Fletcher in Collect. (O.H.S.) I. 183 Possibly it was what would now be called a ‘job’. But, if so, the jobbers had been warned.
b. borough-jobber: see borough 7 c, borough-monger.
1758Johnson Idler No. 7 ⁋22 Captain Grim, who never owed any of his advancement to borough-jobbers, or any other corrupters of the people. 1874Green Short Hist. x. §2. 744 Others were ‘close boroughs’ in the hands of jobbers like the Duke of Newcastle. |