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Definition of Jobberies
1. jobbery [n] - See also: jobbery
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jobberies
Literary usage of Jobberies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The National Review edited by Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot (1864)
"... in which he indulged—jobberies be it remembered which he did not create so
much as continue and improve upon—were not with him, as they had been with ..."
2. Readings in Melbourne: With an Essay on the Resources and Prospects of by Archibald Michie (1879)
"... of the colony as in the south ; and it is the glory of the Australian colonies
that, amidst all the contentions and rivalries, and even jobberies—for ..."
3. Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens (1908)
"Having found out the clue to that great mystery how people can contrive to live
beyond their means, and having over-jobbed his jobberies as legislator ..."
4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1867)
"... pieces originating in the jobberies, rascalities, and eventual disasters of
the time of the railway mania, show that force and sincerity of poetic ..."
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