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

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

In 1954, he started a jobber business, buying, selling and recycling fabric scraps.

From New York Times • Feb. 16, 2015

It began to seem that the man's name might be really John Wray of Manchester, England, some army jobber, or speculator, perhaps—the country was full of them.

From The Storm Centre by Murfree, Mary Noailles