jobberyn.
/ˈdʒɒb(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈdʒɑbəri/ 1. The practice of turning a public office or position of trust to personal gain or political advantage; the execution of corrupt jobs (job n.2 3).
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society > occupation and work > business affairs > [noun] > a business transaction > which sacrifices public interest > perpetration of
botchery1624
jobbing1693
job work1731
jobbery1769
jobmongering1901
1769 T. Nugent tr. P. J. Grosley New Observ. Italy II. 68 Some events, real or forged, are, by the management of an artful jobbery, known to raise their [sc. the banks'] notes to twelve.
1837 F. Palgrave Merchant & Friar (1844) Ded. 7 A notable example of the ancient mode of Parliamentary jobbery.
1861 G. Smith Irish Hist. 184 Inveterate habits of official jobbery and party corruption.
1872 C. M. Yonge Cameos cix, in Monthly Packet Mar. 228 He..was now staining the honour of that seat by his intrigues and jobbery.
1893 Times 26 Apr. 9/5 Incited by his friends [he] aspired to wider opportunities of jobbery.
1937 H. Jennings et al. May 12th Mass-observ. Day-surv. i. iii. 259 Away from the intrigues and jobbery of the real rulers of this country—financiers and big business!
1967 J. B. Keane Lett. of Successful TD i. 11 Flannery is also a member and he's bound to start off about jobbery and nepotism.
2004 Daily Tel. 5 Jan. 30/4 But this trophy for Italy's presidency symbolises the European Union's chronic vices: jobbery, bureaucracy, chicanery.
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society > occupation and work > work > [noun] > temporary or casual work
notec1350
jobbery1832
catchwork1856
grass1888
in and out work1903
gig work2004
gig2015
1832 J. H. Newman Lett. & Corr. (1891) I. 294 Coal, which the foreign jobbery heavers are conveying into the vessel.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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