jobbings

Noun

jobbing (plural jobbings)

1. Buying and selling stocks or goods for profit; mercenary trading.
2. 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
3. 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

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