jobbing

jobbing is the present participle and gerund of job.

Noun

jobbing (plural jobbings)

Buying and selling stocks or goods for profit; mercenary trading.
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
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

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

(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
(intransitive) To work as a jobber.
(intransitive, slang) To take the loss, usually in a demeaning or submissive manner.
(transitive) To buy and sell for profit, as securities; to speculate in.
(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.
(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

jobbing (comparative more jobbing, superlative most jobbing)

That does odd jobs; that works on occasional jobs as available.
- The jobbing foundryman has very little control over the nature of the jobs which come his way.
- 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

What does jobbing mean?: Jobbing means buying and selling stocks or goods for profit; mercenary trading.
What is jobbing the present participle and gerund of?: Jobbing is the present participle and gerund of job.
What part of speech is jobbing?: Jobbing can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of jobbing?: The plural of jobbing is jobbings.

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