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▪ I. jobbing, vbl. n.1|ˈdʒɒbɪŋ|
[f. job v.1 + -ing1.]
The action of job v.1; stabbing, thrusting, etc.
1573,a1795[see job v.1 2]. 1814Sporting Mag. XLIV. 71 His adversary was not to be pinked away by left-handed jobbing. 1889R. S. S. Baden-Powell Pigsticking 82 No jobbing or spurring would induce the horse to move.
b. attrib. Used for ‘jobbing’ or thrusting, as jobbing-knife, jobbing-spear.
1870tr. Erckmann-Chatrian's Waterloo 122 These men with their jobbing-knives in their leather belts. 1889R. S. S. Baden-Powell Pigsticking 89 Two kinds of spear are used in India, the long or ‘underhand’ spear, and the short or ‘jobbing’ spear.
▪ II. jobbing, vbl. n.2
[f. job v.2 + -ing1.]
The action of job v.2
1. a. The doing of jobs or small pieces of work. b. spec. (Printing), the printing of jobs (job n.2 1 c.); also attrib. and Comb. as job n.2 7, jobbing case, jobbing fount, jobbing office, jobbing press, jobbing printer, jobbing printing, jobbing type, jobbing work.
1800D. Corpor. Acc. in Tomlinson Doncaster (1887) 255 For sundries as per jobbing bill. 1841W. Savage Dict. Art of Printing 428 Jobbing is an extensive business in London. 1856Kane Arct. Expl. II. x. 105 Able to do much useful jobbing. 1861Bookseller 26 Oct. Advt., The Founts of Type are..adapted for..every description of First-class Jobbing and Bookwork. 1872Printers' Register Apr. 114/1 The difficulty often experienced in laying Jobbing Founts. 1884J. Gould Letter-Press Printer (ed. 3) 78 Every compositor should endeavour to make himself acquainted with the composition of miscellaneous work, as it is a great source of annoyance to find that a man who is put on to assist cannot earn his wages, but is in fact a hindrance to others in a jobbing office. 1888C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 68 Jobbing cases, double cases made with upper and lower in one. They are sometimes made treble. 1892A. Powell Southward's Pract. Printing (ed. 4) vi. 41 Jobbing Type is so called because it is used for ‘jobs’, i.e., for work like cards, circulars, letter headings, and advertisements. 1924Southward's Mod. Printing (ed. 5) I. ii. 9 (caption) Small jobbing office. Ibid. v. 37 The ordinary arrangement causes the 49 boxes, in seven rows, for the capitals, to be much too small for jobbing founts. For this reason, double cases are now being made with only five or six rows of boxes. Ibid. li. 328 Jobbing work is a term applied to every kind of printing except book-work and newspaper work. 1946A. Monkman in H. Whetton Pract. Printing & Binding vii. 75/1 There is still a wide variety of work available to the general or jobbing printer. 1960P. M. Handover Printing in London vii. 172 (heading) Jobbing. Ibid. vii. 173 The range of jobbing is so great that it would be possible to confine the following pages to a single subject, such as printed games. 1960G. A. Glaister Gloss. Bk. 204/1 Jobbing types, types used for jobbing printing. 1966Berry & Poole Ann. Printing 236/2 This [sc. Gordon's ‘Alligator’ Press 1851] was a jobbing press with a platen standing fixed at an angle of 45 degrees. Ibid. 248/2, 1870..A collection of ‘artistic’ jobbing work..the work of Oscar H. Harpel..was published in Cincinnati. Ibid. 253/2, 1880..The [Printers' International Specimen] Exchange was commenced with the object of fostering good jobbing printing. 1972Jrnl. Printing Hist. Soc. 1971 VII. 38 Double case, improved double case, improved jobbing case, British terms for full size job cases which put the lower case letters in the left two thirds and the capitals in the right third of the case. Ibid., Most printers both in America and in Britain were forced to add more and more of the new letters to their stores of type in order to remain competitive in the jobbing printing business. Ibid., J. L. Ringwalt [and others] ..offer succinct but accurate accounts of the forces that brought about the design and production of these new jobbing types. 1973Univ. of Stirling Press Room (Univ. of Stirling Library), The Press Room contains a large assortment of printing types, jobbing cases, galleys, chases, composing sticks, rules and leads. 1973Times Lit. Suppl. 7 Dec. 1500/3 These principles underlie the construction of most of the presses now operating, from jobbing presses to the largest newspaper machine.
2. The buying of goods or stock from one person and selling to another in order to profit; the practice of a middleman or stock-jobber. (See also stock-jobbing.)
1735Bolingbroke Lett. Hist. ii. (1752) 39 Amassing immense estates by the management of funds, by trafficking in paper, and by all the arts of jobbing. 1754Ess. Manning Fleet 34 Regulations..to prevent..the Monopoly of Tickets, and the..jobbing of them. 1790Burke Fr. Rev. 170 The jobbing of the public funds. 1825Hone Every-day Bk. I. 174 Forced to an undue price by the arts of jobbing.
3. The action of using a public office or service for private gain or party advantage; the perpetration of corrupt jobs; jobbery.
1780A. Young Tour in Ireland ii. ix. 41 Lists and tables of the names of all persons who have obtained presentments,..should be given freely by the jurymen, to all their acquaintance, that every man might know, to whose carelessness or jobbing, the public was indebted for bad roads. 1784J. Barry in Lect. Paint. iv. (1848) 166 The influence and jobbing by which the doing of them is obtained. 1838Lytton Alice iii. i, No jobbing was too gross for him. He was shamefully corrupt in the disposition of his patronage. 1861May Const. Hist. I. vi. 322 The costly..contracts, which this system of Parliamentary jobbing encouraged.
4. attrib. (See also sense 1 b.)
1775T. Mortimer Ev. Man his own Broker 14 Rash engagements in jobbing contracts. 1873J. Richards Wood-working Factories 144 A planing, moulding, and general jobbing machine. 1889Daily News 6 Dec. 3/1 Out of this post-horse system..has grown this jobbing system, which is revolutionizing the customs of all who ‘keep their gig’.
▪ III. jobbing, ppl. a.
[f. job v.2 + -ing2.]
That ‘jobs’, in various senses: see job v.2
1. That does jobs; employed in odd or occasional pieces of work.
1705Double Welcome xlii, A starving Mercenary Priest, A Jobbing, Hackney, Vicious Pulpit Jest. 1746T. Langley Builder's Jewel Introd. (1757) A ij, Apprentices..bound to Jobbing Masters, who know but little. 1836–7Dickens Sk. Boz, Scenes v, A jobbing man—carpet-beater and so forth. 1850Beck's Florist 298, I never had a jobbing gardener that did not want to get in the saddle himself, and put you on the pillion. 1881Young Every man his own Mechanic §187 It is an easy matter..to find a jobbing carpenter.
2. Dealing as a middleman.
1896Proc. New-Eng. Hist. Geneal. Soc. 105 He was one of the prominent jobbing merchants of this city.
3. Using means to secure private gain or advantage in connexion with a public service, etc.; given to jobbery.
1792Burke Corr. (1844) IV. 27 The sentiments of the nation must finally decide the dispute between them and the jobbing ascendancy. a1859Macaulay Hist. Eng. xxiii. V. 70 Covered with the mansions of his jobbing courtiers. |