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job backwards

job backwards verb: to reassess one's original decisions (e.g. investments) with hindsight, determining how they might have been better chosen.

Verb

job backwards (third-person singular simple present jobs backwards, present participle jobbing backwards, simple past and past participle jobbed backwards)

  1. (intransitive) To reassess one's original decisions (e.g. investments) with hindsight, determining how they might have been better chosen.
    • They maintain that Sir William has "jobbed backwards"; that people who invested in the mines were indulging in a speculation, and that because the speculation has failed the whole matter has been considered by Sir William as if it concerned […]1941, The Economist, volume 140, page 46
    • […] it would seem necessary to undertake a series of ex post studies, selecting present major science-based industries and jobbing backwards so as to relate their present value to the network of scientific discoveries judged essential to them.1969, Ian Charles Rayner Byatt, Adrian Victor Cohen, An attempt to quantify the economic benefits of scientific research

Forms of job backwards

third-person singular presentjobs backwards
present participlejobbing backwards
past participlejobbed backwards
pastjobbed backwards

Questions about job backwards

What does job backwards mean?
Job backwards means to reassess one's original decisions (e.g. investments) with hindsight, determining how they might have been better chosen.
What part of speech is job backwards?
Job backwards is a verb.
What is the past tense of job backwards?
The past tense of job backwards is jobbed backwards.

Words near job backwards in the dictionary

  1. job applicant
  2. job applicants
  3. job application
  4. job applications
  5. job apps
  6. job backwards
  7. job center
  8. job centers
  9. job centre
  10. job centres
  11. job club

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