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jobbed backwards

jobbed backwards is the simple past and past participle of job backwards.

Meaning of job backwards

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

Questions about jobbed backwards

What is jobbed backwards the simple past and past participle of?
Jobbed backwards is the simple past and past participle of job backwards.

Words near jobbed backwards in the dictionary

  1. jobanowls
  2. jobation
  3. jobations
  4. jobbe
  5. jobbed
  6. jobbed backwards
  7. jobber
  8. jobberies
  9. jobbernoul
  10. jobbernouls
  11. jobbernowl

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Adapted from Wiktionary: jobbed backwards (page history and authors); job backwards (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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