Jobbing

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Job \Job\ (j[o^]b), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Jobbed} (j[o^]bd); p.
     pr. & vb. n. {Jobbing}.]
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     1. To strike or stab with a pointed instrument. --L'Estrange.
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     2. To thrust in, as a pointed instrument. --Moxon.
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     3. To do or cause to be done by separate portions or lots; to
        sublet (work); as, to job a contract.
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     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.
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     5. To hire or let by the job or for a period of service; as,
        to job a carriage. --Thackeray.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Jobbing \Job"bing\, a.
     1. Doing chance work or odd jobs; as, a jobbing carpenter.
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     2. Using opportunities of public service for private gain;
        as, a jobbing politician. --London Sat. Rev.
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     {Jobbing house}, a mercantile establishment which buys from
        importers, wholesalers or manufacturers, and sells to
        retailers. [U.S.]
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  jobbing
       See {job}

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  job
       n 1: the principal activity in your life that you do to earn
            money; "he's not in my line of business" [syn: {occupation},
             {business}, {line of work}, {line}]
       2: a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or
          for a specific fee; "estimates of the city's loss on that
          job ranged as high as a million dollars"; "the job of
          repairing the engine took several hours"; "the endless
          task of classifying the samples"; "the farmer's morning
          chores" [syn: {task}, {chore}]
       3: the performance of a piece of work; "she did an outstanding
          job as Ophelia"; "he gave it up as a bad job"
       4: the responsibility to do something; "it is their job to
          print the truth"
       5: a workplace; as in the expression "on the job";
       6: an object worked on; a result produced by working; "he held
          the job in his left hand and worked on it with his right"
       7: a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved; "she and
          her husband are having problems"; "it is always a job to
          contact him"; "urban problems such as traffic congestion
          and smog" [syn: {problem}]
       8: a damaging piece of work; "dry rot did the job of destroying
          the barn"; "the barber did a real job on my hair"
       9: a crime (especially a robbery); "the gang pulled off a bank
          job in St. Louis" [syn: {caper}]
       10: a Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith
           in God in spite of afflictions that tested him
       11: any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without
           despairing
       12: (computer science) a program application that may consist of
           several steps but is a single logical unit
       13: a book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God
           about his afflictions and God's reply [syn: {Book of Job}]
       v 1: profit privately from public office and official business
       2: arranged for contracted work to be done by others [syn: {subcontract},
           {farm out}]
       3: work occasionally; "As a student I jobbed during the
          semester breaks"
       4: invest at a risk; "I bought this house not because I want to
          live in it but to sell it later at a good price, so I am
          speculating" [syn: {speculate}]
       [also: {jobbing}, {jobbed}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  51 Moby Thesaurus words for "jobbing":
     Machiavellianism, Machiavellism, 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, 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