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Example sentences for "jobbing"

Lexicographically close words:
job; jobbed; jobber; jobbers; jobbery; jobless; jobs; jockey; jockeyed; jockeying
  1. There was great jobbing and corruption, but taxation, on the whole, was exceedingly light, and there was no tendency to throw it unduly on the poor, or to create in Ireland any of the many feudal burdens that prevailed in France and Germany.

  2. A certain jobbing house, handling drugs and druggists' sundries, occupied a five-story building.

  3. This discussion refers more especially to the filling of orders in a jobbing house, or a manufacturing business which carries goods in stock.

  4. As a rule, all orders of a jobbing house should be filled the day they are received.

  5. He was still less competent than Lord Raglan for so great a responsibility, and the people of the United Kingdom were indignant at the jobbing and patronage to which the interests of the country were sacrificed.

  6. To this policy the jobbing interests of the Pacific coast strenuously object.

  7. The jobbing or wholesale business of the United States exemplifies the most highly involved and complex details of commercial competition.

  8. The railways in Official Classification territory desire, of course, to build up the manufacturing and jobbing cities tributary to them.

  9. This can best be done by encouraging the growth of eastern jobbing centres, stimulated by as low rates for retail as for wholesale shipments.

  10. But by this means, the jobbing interests of the localities are protected, without at the same time giving consideration to an equitable adjustment as between all the remoter interests concerned.

  11. Automobile parts may come in from the wheel-maker at second-class rates, but when they go out to jobbing houses they are rated three times first class.

  12. The New York or Chicago jobbing house desiring to sell its goods directly to the retailers throughout the West, wishes to have a relatively low rate on such small shipments as the retailers in lesser places alone can afford to purchase.

  13. Unfortunately the Pacific coast points were in an uproar at this threat against their supremacy in the jobbing business.

  14. From New Orleans refineries comes the Louisiana product, and from the Atlantic sea ports the Cuban sugar; but in each case the carriage is broken at an intermediate point, at which manufacture or jobbing ensues.

  15. These trade centres, moreover, arising in connection with the sale of staple products of the soil, became natural distributing or jobbing points.

  16. The first disposition to abandon this section was shown by opening new stores in Cedar street, which soon became so popular as a jobbing resort that its rents quadrupled.

  17. It was supposed at the time of its erection to be the finest jobbing store in existence, and although since then both Mr. Astor and James E.

  18. I asked by what means they supported themselves, and they replied that they and their brethren gained a livelihood by jobbing in horses, mules, etc.

  19. But the jobbing gardeners who come to me now are under supervision, and are compelled to do things that they hate most in the world--such as putting away their tools when they have finished with them.

  20. As the law stands at present you may kill a caterpillar, but not a jobbing gardener.

  21. I will not say that even in my regenerate condition I never employ a jobbing gardener.

  22. Of these the worst and most dangerous is perhaps the jobbing gardener.

  23. But this incident reminded the blessed artist to countermand the jobbing gardener--a man of intemperate habits and quite unfit to collaborate with angels.

  24. There is probably an organised conspiracy between florists and jobbing gardeners to promote Jacobys.

  25. The jobbing gardener said they were weeds, he would have turned them out.

  26. I think for some two years previously a jobbing gardener had called one day every week on purpose to neglect it.

  27. You may weed properly with a small fork, instead of perfunctorily with a hoe, after the manner of the jobbing gardener.

  28. I left my garden to the cats, the jobbing gardeners, the caterpillars, and the other pests.

  29. I asked the jobbing gardener what the roses were, planted in odd corners of the lawn.

  30. The jobbing gardener turned up his nose at the lawn.

  31. I have read in books that the gardener takes the slug and crushes it under his heel on the gravel path; a jobbing gardener might possibly do that--jobbing gardeners will do anything.

  32. As for that old box tree," said my jobbing Jeremiah, "it never ought to have been put there at all, right on the edge of a bed.

  33. All the jobbing houses have odds and ends that they are willing to sell at anything they can get, in order to get rid of the stuff.

  34. The jobbing houses are retailing at wholesale prices, and we poor retailers stand no chance.

  35. I am tired of the business, and if I could sell out I would get into the jobbing trade.

  36. There were four jobbing houses there in our line, but not one would buy.

  37. I was struck with a point he made against a buyer for a large jobbing house.

  38. Sylvia mostly spent these spring days in the garden with Mrs. Gainsborough, listening to her tales about the past and helping her to overlook the labors of the jobbing gardener who came in twice a week.

  39. The some one must be absolutely trustworthy, as the plain language of the agreement would make clear to the dullest mind dazzling opportunities for profit--not only in stock jobbing but also in blackmail.

  40. In response to the growing needs of jobbing and manufacturing lines, which were then in their infancy, the Merchants National Bank was organized in 1881 by R.

  41. He pushed his jobbing trade in all directions and made his interior customers his personal friends.

  42. He had been already absent one winter on a trip to the West Indies for his health, and had made a brief and not wholly satisfactory experiment (about 1846) at establishing a jobbing fancy-goods trade in New York.

  43. As interior Michigan developed he added jobbing to his retail department, and became known as a close and prudent buyer, a shrewd judge of credits, and a most successful collector.

  44. It is easy to point a sneer at a high priest of humanity jobbing in the funds.

  45. Jobbing Center--Due to its central situation Reno is the jobbing center for the territory of Nevada and Eastern California.

  46. The Duke de la Force gained considerable sums, not only by jobbing in the stocks, but in dealing in porcelain, spices, &c.

  47. Stock-jobbing Card, or the humours of Change Alley.

  48. Print, circa 1720) Stock-jobbing Card, or the Humours of Change Alley.

  49. Stock-jobbing was substituted for the maximum, and informers of the middle class altogether surpassed the popular informers.

  50. But I can find nowhere in His Gospel that He wished us to turn Religion into a sort of stock-jobbing company managed by sacerdotal directors in Rome!

  51. That done he sold the vessel, dissolved partnership, and commenced planking and general jobbing again.

  52. The business of the new establishment instantly became large and remunerative, the jobbing trade commencing auspiciously, and rapidly increasing to extensive dimensions.

  53. The "corner store" became known far and wide, and a very large country trade was built up in the jobbing department.


  54. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "jobbing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    agency; barter; brokerage; dealing; diplomacy; exchange; hawking; huckstering; interchange; jobbing; marketing; merchandising; peddling; politics; promotion; retailing; salesmanship; selling; swapping; trade; trading; trafficking; vending