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jobbing en · ADJ

Meanings

1. That does odd jobs; that works on occasional jobs as available.
   • His performance in Dr No in 1962 set the jobbing actor and former milkman on a path that would lead to Hollywood stardom and all its trappings. 2020 November 1, Alan Young, “Sean Connery obituary: From delivering milk in Fountainbridge to the definitive James Bond”, in The Scotsman:
   • The jobbing foundryman has very little control over the nature of the jobs which come his way.

Forms

jobbing en · NOUN

Meanings

1. Buying and selling stocks or goods for profit; mercenary trading.
2. The fact or practice of using a public office or other position of trust for personal gain.
   • 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. 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, Oxford, published 2009, page 197:
3. Work carried out by the job; piecework, odd-job work.
   • We have not lost sight of the various proceedings, appointments, jobbings, &c, at University College. 1849, The Lancet London:

Forms

Relateds

land-jobbing · job production · jobbing house · double-jobbing · double jobbing

Translations (3)

bg случайна работа (work carried out by the job) · ga jabaireacht (work carried out by the job) · pl akord (work carried out by the job)

jobbing en · VERB

Meanings

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of job
   form of job