jobbed

Verb

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

1. (intransitive) To do odd jobs or occasional work for hire.
   • Authors of all work, to job for the season.a. 1852, Thomas Moore, Literary Advertisement
2. (intransitive) To work as a jobber.
3. (intransitive, slang) To take the loss, usually in a demeaning or submissive manner.
4. (transitive) To buy and sell for profit, as securities; to speculate in.
5. (often, transitive) To subcontract a project or delivery in small portions to a number of contractors.
   • We wanted to sell a turnkey plant, but they jobbed out the contract to small firms.
6. (intransitive) To seek private gain under pretence of public service; to turn public matters to private advantage.
   • And judges job, and bishops bite the town.1733, Alexander Pope, Epistle to Bathurst

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