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jobbish en · ADJ

Etymology

From job + -ish.

Meanings

1. (rare) Characteristic of a jobber or broker.
   • This was Burke's earliest reference to the jobbish character of the administration in Ireland. Corruption was a function of its garrison mentality. 2017, Richard Bourke, Empire and Revolution: The Political Life of Edmund Burke, page 212:
   • During this period, the business transacted in the warehouses was altogether of a retail and miscellaneous character, buyers only being tempted to operate where parcels of goods were offered to them at prices closely approximating to jobbish transactions. 1868, USA House of Representatives, House Documents (volume 214? 256? page 87)
   • When the appointment of Mr. Philip Sandys Melvill to Baroda was first announced, it was considered by the Bombay officials especially as rather out-of-the-way, rather a jobbish appointment. 1882, Behramji Merwanji Malabari, Gujarʹat and the Gujarʹatis, page 52:

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