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Meanings of jobber in English

Catalan
majorista

Someone who buys large quantities of goods and resells to merchants rather than to the ultimate customers.

        majorista
        Usage of jobber in English
        1
        It renders the stock-jobber a magician, and the exchange a region of enchantment.
        The Crayon Papers
        2
        They get credit from somebody else and pay the jobber or the banker.
        The Rise of David Levinsky
        3
        Your father was too perspicacious a jobber to believe such a false rumor.
        A conspiracy of paper: a novel
        4
        He could not but admire the feverish animation that now characterized the jobber.
        The Blazed Trail
        5
        Then the jobber should have a margin of 15 per cent.
        A Man of Samples. Something about the men he met "On the Road"
        6
        A jobber has to fight against every other jobber and the manufacturers too.
        A Man of Samples. Something about the men he met "On the Road"
        7
        Irvine, an English loan jobber, saw the Duke yesterday with the same offer.
        A Political Diary, 1828-1830, Volume II
        8
        My jobber haf tolt me dot Mr. Biggs is git drunk efery day.
        A Man for the Ages: A Story of the Builders of Democracy
        9
        The poor land-jobber begged him to grant a few months' indulgence.
        The Great English Short-Story Writers, Volume 1
        10
        And that he is some kind of petty gamester and jobber.
        A conspiracy of paper: a novel
        11
        The jobber did not see the meaning of his customer.
        Heart-Histories and Life-Pictures
        12
        He had been a dry-goods jobber, risen from a retailer somewhere in the country.
        The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 52, February, 1862 / A Maga...
        13
        It is not 'What will the jobber pay for this?'
        A Man of Samples. Something about the men he met "On the Road"
        14
        That is to say, Semple arranged with a jobber, on the quiet, d'ye see?
        The Market-Place
        15
        The jobber grades the eggs as the trade demands.
        The Dollar Hen
        16
        The day of the jobber and retailer is done.
        The Root of Evil
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        Translations for jobber
        Catalan
        majorista
        Jobber through the time
        Jobber across language varieties
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