noun Download 🔗Share One who works by the job (i.e. paid per individual piece of work) and recruits other people. Examples : "The jobber hired several students to assemble the packets of information, promising to pay them per packet completed. " job business work organization person economy Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A promoter or broker of stocks for investment. Examples : "An act to restrain the number and ill practice of brokers and stock jobbers: 8 & 9 Wm. 3, ch. 32 (1697) [legislation of English parliament" business finance job economy Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share An intermediary who buys and sells merchandise. Examples : "The local jobber bought apples directly from the farmers and then sold them to the smaller grocery stores in town. " business commerce job economy Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A type of intermediary in the apparel industry, as well as others, who buys excess merchandise from brand owners and manufacturers, and sells to retailers at prices that are 20-70% below wholesale. Examples : "The local clothing store gets its discounted brand-name jeans from a jobber who specializes in buying overstocked inventory. " business commerce job industry economy Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A market maker on the stock exchange. Examples : "The jobber quickly adjusted the price of the stock to match the current demand on the exchange. " business finance economy Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A performer whose primary role is to lose to established talent. Examples : "In professional wrestling, the new wrestler was brought in as a jobber, meant to lose to the champion and make him look even stronger. " entertainment sport job Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A thing (often used in a vague way to refer to something the name of which one cannot recall). Examples : ""Could you hand me that... uh... that jobber? The thingamajig with the red handle, used for tightening bolts." " thing Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share An actor temporarily employed for a specific role, often in a touring company. Examples : ""The traveling theater company hired a jobber for the summer to play the villain while their regular actor was on leave." " entertainment job stage person Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading