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

The Securities bill was designed to clean up the evils of stock jobbery.

From Time Magazine Archive

But Tory politics and common-room scandal and jobbery apart, the University would appear to have slept the sleep of the unjust.

From Aspects of Modern Oxford by Godley, A. D. (Alfred Denis)