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

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

Here a wall is raised against incompetence, and against the jobbery under which incompetence would profit.

From The Cult of Incompetence by Barstow, Beatrice