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
A U. S. District Attorney in Manhattan, preparing to run as a Republican against Governor Roosevelt, disclosed all manner of jobbery among Tammany judges.
From Time Magazine Archive
In 1910 he damned the Payne-Aldrich law as "a miserable travesty, an ill-designed patchwork, a piece of brazen legislative jobbery" and in 1932 he flayed the Hawley-Smoot act as "utterly disastrous to our trade."
From Time Magazine Archive
He would not offer a bribe for her silence, nor would he derive a personal advantage from a piece of jobbery.
From Blake's Burden by Harold Bindloss
