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
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
The Securities bill was designed to clean up the evils of stock jobbery.
From Time Magazine Archive
His scorn of all pettiness made him disdain jobbery, and even the subtler arts of parliamentary manipulation.
From Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections by Rosebery, Archibald Phillip Primrose
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