'Jobbing' definitions:
Definition of 'Jobbing'
From: GCIDE
- Job \Job\ (j[o^]b), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Jobbed (j[o^]bd); p. pr. & vb. n. Jobbing.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. To strike or stab with a pointed instrument. --L'Estrange. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To thrust in, as a pointed instrument. --Moxon. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To do or cause to be done by separate portions or lots; to sublet (work); as, to job a contract. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Com.) To buy and sell, as a broker; to purchase of importers or manufacturers for the purpose of selling to retailers; as, to job goods. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To hire or let by the job or for a period of service; as, to job a carriage. --Thackeray. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Jobbing'
From: GCIDE
- Jobbing \Job"bing\, a.
- 1. Doing chance work or odd jobs; as, a jobbing carpenter. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Using opportunities of public service for private gain; as, a jobbing politician. --London Sat. Rev. [1913 Webster]
- Jobbing house, a mercantile establishment which buys from importers, wholesalers or manufacturers, and sells to retailers. [U.S.] [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'jobbing'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- agency,
- barter,
- bartering,
- brokerage,
- buying and selling,
- consumer preference study,
- consumer research,
- consumer survey,
- dealing,
- diplomacy,
- diplomatics,
- direct-mail selling,
- doing business,
- exchange,
- give-and-take,
- hard sell,
- hawking,
- high-pressure salesmanship,
- horse trading,
- huckstering,
- interchange,
- jobbery,
- legal bucketing,
- low-pressure salesmanship,
- Machiavellianism,
- Machiavellism,
- mail-order selling,
- market research,
- marketing,
- marketing research,
- merchandising,
- peddling,
- politics,
- promotion,
- retailing,
- sales campaign,
- sales promotion,
- salesmanship,
- selling,
- sellout,
- soft sell,
- stockbrokerage,
- stockbroking,
- stockjobbery,
- stockjobbing,
- swapping,
- trade,
- trading,
- trafficking,
- wheeling and dealing,
- wholesaling
Words containing 'Jobbing'
- By the job,
- Job,
- Jobbed,
- do a job on,
- on the job,
- to do a job on,
- Job lot,
- Job master,
- Job printer,
- Job's comforter,
- Job's news,
- Job's tears,
- Jobbing house,
- Odd job,
- To put up a job,
- bad job,
- blow job,
- book of job,
- coaching job,
- hand job,
- hard job,
- hatchet job,
- inside job,
- job action,
- job application,
- job book of,
- job candidate,
- job control,
- job description,
- job interview,
- nose job,
- on-the-job,
- put up job,
- snow job,
- job control language,
- odd-job,
- federal job safety law,
- job-control language,
- job-oriented terminal,
- odd-job man