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Definition of Jobing
1. jobe [v] - See also: jobe
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jobing
Literary usage of Jobing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Virginias, a Mining, Industrial & Scientific Journal, Devoted to the by Jedediah Hotchkiss (1883)
"Under it has grown up the business of jobing in railway charters, the buying and
selling of "Acts of incorporation," to the manifest detriment of the ..."
2. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography by Historical Society of Pennsylvania (1898)
"It is said he is forming one of the greatest commercial Houses in the world; and
has a plan for Land jobing of equal extent. I know not what it all means; ..."
3. The Diary of Samuel Pepys by Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, Richard Griffin Braybrooke (1893)
"My Lord pleases himself with it, but methinks it ought to have been better done
than by jobing. Besides I put him upon having some took off upon white ..."
4. pennsylvania archives by Pennsylvania State Library, Pennsylvania Dept. of Public Instruction, Pennsylvania Secretary of the Commonwealth (1855)
"... Jinkins, & associates, he has Inlisted himself in Proprietors, wrights Pritty
Largly & is Padling about with Franklin & Jinkins in the Land jobing way; ..."
5. Essays in the Earlier History of American Corporations by Joseph Stancliffe Davis (1917)
"Banks originated in all commercial countries, for substantial commercial purposes,
and nowhere have they been considered as engines of stock jobing. ..."
6. Sussex Archaeological Collections Relating to the History and Antiquities of by Sussex Archaeological Society (1896)
"... like the preceding one, was "fine," the funeral was performed, and this is
how Mr. Burgess chronicles it :— " This day was jobing about the Grave &c. ..."
7. Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S.: Secretary to the by Samuel Pepys, Richard Griffin Braybrooke (1855)
"31 jobing, Mr., ii. 34 " Jodelet," a play by Scarron, iii. 409 John, Don, of
Austria, flight of, ii. 13—report of his death, 17—contradicted, 21—alluded to, ..."
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