jobber
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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
On the other hand, because he received and distributed the sugar before the market broke, the New York jobber was able not only to avoid a loss, but make his regular profit.
From About sugar buying for jobbers How you can lessen business risks by trading in refined sugar futures by B. W. (Benjamin Wheeler) Dyer
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