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jobbing backwards

jobbing backwards is the present participle and gerund 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 jobbing backwards

What is jobbing backwards the present participle and gerund of?
Jobbing backwards is the present participle and gerund of job backwards.

Words near jobbing backwards in the dictionary

  1. jobbie
  2. jobbie jabber
  3. jobbie jabbers
  4. jobbies
  5. jobbing
  6. jobbing backwards
  7. jobbing house
  8. jobbing houses
  9. jobbing printer
  10. jobbing printing
  11. jobbings

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