[
UK
/dʒˈɒbɐ/
]
[ US /ˈdʒɑbɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈdʒɑbɝ/ ]
NOUN
- someone who buys large quantities of goods and resells to merchants rather than to the ultimate customers
How To Use jobber In A Sentence
- A second reason, certainly understood by the infamous stockjobbers crowding the coffee houses of Exchange Alley, was the option value of defaulting on future installments in case the stock began to lose value in the market.
- I have one of those stovetop espresso jobbers and I only noticed something was wrong when I smelled the rubber gasket burning.
- Addressing a business breakfast attended by several former mayors in Somerset West, he claimed the ANC/NNP had even resorted to bribery and intimidation and the worst kind of "jobbery". ANC Daily News Briefing
- Even complete nut-jobbery is fascinatingly entertaining. Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points [151] -- Obama's Speech
- Even sympathetic discussions tend to focus on the unusualthe humorous entries, the weird words bicipitous; jobbernowl; trolmydames. Languagehat.com: SHEIDLOWER ON JOHNSON.
- Mark or Johnnie were in no way abrasive as were many jobbers of the day.
- If you're a manufacturer with over-runs, or a wholesaler, jobber or retailer with stock that you just can't move, consider packing up whatever will fit into that extra suitcase. Traveling light to Oaxaca?
- a faggot-stick or his sword to the rascal's jobbernowl, give him the gentle lash, or make him cut a caper out at the window, by way of correction. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4
- Dupont strongly recommends Solar Simulator to its jobbers and paint shops.
- It didn’t matter if I was wrestling a champion or some no-name jobber—a wrestler hired to lose. Heartbreak &triumph