jobbery

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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

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

The Securities bill was designed to clean up the evils of stock jobbery.

From Time Magazine Archive

In that case the provincial authorities overrode the central government, with the result that “for wholesale jobbery, waste and mismanagement the enterprise acquired unenviable notoriety in a land where these things are generally condoned.”

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