jobbing

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Verb

1. present participle of job#English|job

Noun

jobbing (plural jobbings)

1. Buying and selling stocks or goods for profit; mercenary trading. [from 17th c.]
2. The fact or practice of using a public office or other position of trust for personal gain. [from 17th c.]
   • 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, Oxford 2009, p. 197:

     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.

3. Work carried out by the job; piecework, odd-job work. [from 18th c.]
   • 1849, The Lancet London

     We have not lost sight of the various proceedings, appointments, jobbings, &c, at University College.

Adjective

jobbing

1. That does odd jobs; that works on occasional jobs as available. [from 18th c.]

   The jobbing foundryman has very little control over the nature of the jobs which come his way.

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