Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Chiefly British A stock-exchange operator who deals only with brokers.
- noun A stockbroker, especially an unscrupulous one.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who speculates in stocks for gain; one whose occupation is the purchase and sale of stocks or shares.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who speculates in stocks for gain; one whose occupation is to buy and sell stocks. In England a jobber acts as an intermediary between brokers.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun chiefly UK, trading A
stock-exchange operator who deals only withbrokers . - noun UK, pejorative, trading An unscrupulous
stockbroker .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun one who deals only with brokers or other jobbers
Etymologies
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Examples
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It was about the year 1688 that the word stockjobber was first heard in London.
Lombard Street : a description of the money market Walter Bagehot 1851
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It was about the year 1688 that the word stockjobber was first heard in London.
The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829
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a member of the legislature who can properly be called a stockjobber or
Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3. Benson John Lossing 1852
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If any spirit ever walks it must be that of the stockjobber, for how can such a one rest in its grave without knowing what shares are doing?
The Three Clerks 2004
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But come, we must go back to the inn; there is an ally of mine coming to me; a perfect specimen of a sharp Cornish mining stockjobber — as vulgar a fellow as you ever met, and as shrewd.
The Three Clerks 2004
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Wasn't it a stockjobber who thought Botticelli was a cheese?
Austin and His Friends Frederic H. Balfour
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I entered my "Speedwell," a prominent stockjobber.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-09-08 Various
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They cared as much about liberty as about old moons: this one speculated on a title; that one on a vice; a third, to possess a carriage and dine at Vefour's, had become the thrall of a wealthy stockjobber who paid his virtues by the month and his opinions by the line.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864 Various
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City coffee importer, and Lang, the stockjobber, well known in his own circle as an amateur prestidigitator.
A Voyage to Arcturus David Lindsay 1910
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"Why don't you make your offer to some company floater or stockjobber?"
The Intriguers Harold Bindloss 1905
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