jobber
Example Sentences
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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
When he returned, Jinder Mahal was still a jobber — losing often — but in April, his story saw a creative shift: He became a winner.
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
In 1772, the occurrence of some Scotch failures led to a Change-Alley panic, and the downfall of Alexander Fordyce, who, for years, had been the most thriving jobber in London.
From Old and New London Volume I by Thornbury, Walter
