jobbery
Example Sentences
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If you were here I think I could, and would if I could, do a little jobbery on your account.
From Salon • Apr. 24, 2019
Research published in 2011 by Victor Lapuente and Carl Dahlstrom of the University of Gothenburg, and Jan Teorell, of Lund University, looked at which features of a civil service cut jobbery.
From Economist • Mar. 10, 2016
The Securities bill was designed to clean up the evils of stock jobbery.
From Time Magazine Archive
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A U. S. District Attorney in Manhattan, preparing to run as a Republican against Governor Roosevelt, disclosed all manner of jobbery among Tammany judges.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Others regarded the whole business as a speculation of jobbers, and the stain of jobbery then pervading government circles was so notorious that the presumption was not without warrant.
From Ulysses S. Grant by Allen, Walter
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