jobbery

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Jobbery and extravagance are unknown, and politics, as there is no money in it, has ceased to be a trade.

From Direct Legislation by the Citizenship through the Initiative and Referendum by Sullivan, James William

If then the Courts of Assize are, by the very nature of the case, instruments of injustice, it is the Grand Juries which are the great scene of Jobbery.

From Sydney Smith by Russell, George William Erskine

Jobbery is any scheme which aims to gain, not by the legitimate fruits of industry and enterprise, but by extorting from somebody a part of his product under guise of some pretended industrial undertaking.

From What Social Classes Owe to Each Other by Sumner, William Graham

Jobbery and abuse of patronage would be still further prevented by making the duties sufficiently heavy.

From The Scientific Basis of National Progress Including that of Morality by Gore, George

For Jobbery finds some baseness still For venal hands to do.

From Punch, or the London Charivari Volume 98, January 4, 1890 by Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), Sir