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
In 1910 he damned the Payne-Aldrich law as "a miserable travesty, an ill-designed patchwork, a piece of brazen legislative jobbery" and in 1932 he flayed the Hawley-Smoot act as "utterly disastrous to our trade."
From Time Magazine Archive
As an administrator, Sir Stafford Northcote was diligent, judicious, and free from any taint of jobbery.
From Studies in Contemporary Biography by James Bryce, Viscount Bryce
