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present participle and gerund of job examples
plural jobbings
Buying and selling stocks or goods for profit; mercenary trading. examples
The fact or practice of using a public office or other position of trust for personal gain. quotations examples
It is through the power of Paris, now become the center and focus of jobbing, that the leaders of this faction direct, or rather command the whole legislative and the whole executive government.
1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, Oxford, published 2009, page 197
Work carried out by the job; piecework, odd-job work. quotations examples
We have not lost sight of the various proceedings, appointments, jobbings, &c, at University College.
1849, The Lancet London
comparative more jobbing, superlative most jobbing
That does odd jobs; that works on occasional jobs as available. quotations examples
His performance in Dr No in 1962 set the jobbing actor and former milkman on a path that would lead to Hollywood stardom and all its trappings.
2020 November 1, Alan Young, “Sean Connery obituary: From delivering milk in Fountainbridge to the definitive James Bond”, in The Scotsman