jobbery

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If then the Courts of Assize are, by the very nature of the case, instruments of injustice, it is the Grand Juries which are the great scene of Jobbery.

From Sydney Smith by Russell, George William Erskine

For Jobbery finds some baseness still For venal hands to do.

From Punch, or the London Charivari Volume 98, January 4, 1890 by Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), Sir

Jobbery had been, he was told, the ruin of Ireland; he would show its inefficiency by the superior skill with which he could wield its weapon.

From Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume I. by Lever, Charles James

Jobbery is any scheme which aims to gain, not by the legitimate fruits of industry and enterprise, but by extorting from somebody a part of his product under guise of some pretended industrial undertaking.

From What Social Classes Owe to Each Other by Sumner, William Graham

Jobbery is the vice of plutocracy, and it is the especial form under which plutocracy corrupts a democratic and republican form of government.

From What Social Classes Owe to Each Other by Sumner, William Graham