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单词 stock-jobber
释义

stock-jobbern.

Etymology: Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈstock-ˌjobber.
a. A member of the Stock Exchange who deals in stocks on his own account; = jobber n.2 1.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [noun] > dealer in stocks and shares > jobber in stock exchange
jobbera1626
stock-jobbera1626
dealer1719
market dealer1872
market man1895
market-maker1962
a1626 Sir J. Davies in T. Carte Gen. Hist. Eng. (1755) IV. 194/1 He had..played the stock-jobber in buying the debentures, tallies and ticquets,..at a great discompt.
a1692 Shadwell (title) The Volunteers, or the Stock-Jobbers. A Comedy.
1697 London Gaz. No. 3280/2 An Act to Restrain the Number and Ill Practices of Brokers and Stock-Jobbers.
1723 London Gaz. No. 6136/4 Thomas Shank,..Broker and Stockjobber.
1750 S. Johnson Rambler No. 20. ⁋5 The son of a wealthy stock-jobber, who spends his morning under his father's eye in Change Alley.
1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Stockjobber, a low wretch who gets money by buying and selling shares in the funds.
1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Alice I. iii. i. 232 Lord Vargrave was..suspected of selling his state information to stock-jobbers.
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Stock-jobber, an outsider or intermediate agent between the buyer and seller of public securities, who makes a marginal price at which shares, etc. are to be bought or sold in the Stock-exchange.
b. U.S. ‘A stockbroker; often used somewhat contemptuously or to suggest unscrupulousness’ (W. 1911).
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [noun] > dealer in stocks and shares > stock-broker
stockbroker1706
stock-jobber1833
brokera1860
1833 Niles' Reg. 44 570/1 The ‘black-leg’ in the gambling houses..more fairly takes the chances of the play, than the stock-jobber on 'change.
1895 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. II.
1911 H. S. Harrison Queed 107 If a man became the greatest stock-jobber in the world, who would remember him after he was gone.

Derivatives

ˈstock-ˌjobbery n. jocular stock-jobbing.
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society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [noun]
jobbing1606
stock-jobbing1692
stockbroking1792
stockholding1830
stockbrokerage1837
stockbrokery1874
agiotage1880
stock-jobbery1882
1882 Ogilvie's Imperial Dict. (new ed.) Stock-jobbery, the practice or business of dealing in stocks or shares: used in a disparaging sense.
1897 Daily News 22 May 5/1 Was the Jameson plan conceived or abetted in the interests of stock-jobbery?
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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