jobbery
Example Sentences
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If you were here I think I could, and would if I could, do a little jobbery on your account.
From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2019
Research published in 2011 by Victor Lapuente and Carl Dahlstrom of the University of Gothenburg, and Jan Teorell, of Lund University, looked at which features of a civil service cut jobbery.
From Economist ● Mar. 10, 2016
In all this stock jobbery, the newly invented telegraph serves the political and financial turn of the men in power so often that Stendhal sees the instrument as a symbol of corruption.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Securities bill was designed to clean up the evils of stock jobbery.
From Time Magazine Archive
The whole system was permeated with jobbery, and the House used to become more than usually active in these matters as the elections approached.
From The Development of Rates of Postage An Historical and Analytical Study by A. D. Smith
