jobber
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
entertainment
finance
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
media
military
politics
printing
professional-wrestling
publishing
sports
theater
war
wrestling
Etymology: Etymology tree
English job
English -er
English jobber
From job + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: jobbers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who works by the job (i.e. paid per individual piece of work) and/or recruits other people for such work.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: The deponent, in the course of negotiation for sundry jobs, expressed his curiosity repecting the Habits and Life of the Knights of the Thimble, when the jobber to the Nobility and Gentry kindly volunteered to accompny him on a round to some of the great shops of the west.
Every person who shall keep any boat for the purpose aforesaid without having such license, and every owner of, or other person who shall be employed or shall ply for hire in any such boat within the limits aforesaid without having such license or wearing such badge as aforesaid, and every person who shall offer himself as a porter or jobber within the said town of Saint George without having such license or wearing such badge aforesaid, shall, for every such offence, forfeit and pay a penalty not exceeding forrty shillings.
The jobbing clerk immediately upon receipt of the ticket minuted it properly in the book, and, upon looking at the annunciator, saw that it showed no jobbers in the waiting room; he went at once to the waiting room, but found no one there; he then returned to his own room and called down the speaking-tube to the basement for a jobber, but was told by the boiler tender that no jobber was there. The foreman of the jobbing department was then at his desk, but the clerk did not call his attention to the fact of the complaint or to his failure to find a jobber, nor did he make any further effort to find a jobber or to mention the complaint to any one until about 11.35, when he again called to the basement for a jobber, and ordered the first one who came in to be sent up.
In the Mills there existed a usage under which a worker was first appointed as a Cleaner then an Oiler and thereafter promoted as a Jobber.
gloss: An actor temporarily employed for a specific role, often in a touring company.
pos: noun
examples: Most of the music circuses use jobbers in four to eight of the leading roles for each show. These jobbers are principal actors who are employed for one or two leading roles during the season. There is no difference between a star and a jobber, except that a jobber is not necessarily a "big-name" performer […]
Jobbers are used as needed.
gloss: A promoter or broker of stocks for investment.
pos: noun
tags: UK
obsolete
examples: An act to restrain the number and ill practice of brokers and stock jobbers: 8 & 9 Wm. 3, ch. 32 (1697) [legislation of English parliament]
gloss: An intermediary who buys and sells merchandise.
pos: noun
examples: We will say "I would rather be an expressman hauling tobacco, cigarettes, et cetera, than be a jobber of such commodities," especially in the city of Boston at the present writing.
In considering the reasons for the manufacturer's growing independence of the jobber we must class them under two heads; first the reasons that might apply to the old-fashioned jobber who has not varied his activities from the historic model, and, second, the reasons that apply only to the jobber who has departed from the old model and has undertaken or abandoned certain activities in an attempt to strengthen his position.
It is usually best to choose a book jobber to handle the bulk of a library's purchases.
gloss: An intermediary who buys and sells merchandise.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: An intermediary who buys and sells merchandise.
pos: noun
tags: UK
gloss: A performer whose primary role is to lose to established talent.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: My argument has ALWAYS been that 99.9% of all wrestlers are jobbers (and I'm 100% correct).
I agree, Superstars got a bit dull with the jobber matches at times but it furthered storylines so they didn't have to give away PPV matches on a regular TV show...
gloss: A thing (often used in a vague way to refer to something the name of which one cannot recall).
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: A job press or platen press.
pos: noun
Derived words: blow jobber
blow-jobber
clock-jobber
land-jobber
nutjobber
odd-jobber
rack jobber
stockjobber
wagon jobber
watch-jobber
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