jobber

Example Sentences

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Founder Dan Evins, a Tennessee oil jobber, envisioned a restaurant and retail operation themed around old-time country stores, where people gathered to play checkers on barrels once used to deliver crackers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 25, 2025

Dan’s father, who had studied language and philosophy at Krakow University but had ended up a textile jobber in New York, did not approve of the enterprise, despite its fast start.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 6, 2018

In wrestling parlance, he was a jobber: a performer who exists almost entirely to make other performers look better.

From New York Times • Aug. 18, 2017

But it wasn't all like that, according to Brian Winterflood, later the founder of Winterflood Securities, who had been a jobber at Greener Dreyfus since the 1950s.

From BBC • Oct. 26, 2016

Occasionally the jobber runs considerable risk, since, after concluding a bargain, and while endeavouring to obtain a profit on it, the market p. 144may turn. 

From Here and There in London by Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)