jobber

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim One who works by the job (i.e. paid per individual piece of work) and/or recruits other people for such work.

   “The deponent, in the course of negotiation for sundry jobs, expressed his curiosity repecting the Habits and Life of the Knights of the Thimble, when the jobber to the Nobility and Gentry kindly volunteered to accompny him on a round to some of the great shops of the west.”

2. isim An actor temporarily employed for a specific role, often in a touring company.

   “Jobbers are used as needed.”

3. isim A promoter or broker of stocks for investment.

   “An act to restrain the number and ill practice of brokers and stock jobbers: 8 & 9 Wm. 3, ch. 32 (1697) [legislation of English parliament]”

4. isim An intermediary who buys and sells merchandise.

   “We will say "I would rather be an expressman hauling tobacco, cigarettes, et cetera, than be a jobber of such commodities," especially in the city of Boston at the present writing.”

5. isim A type of intermediary in the apparel industry, as well as others, who buys excess merchandise from brand owners and manufacturers, and sells to retailers at prices that are 20-70% below wholesale.
6. isim A market maker on the stock exchange; a stockjobber.
7. isim A performer whose primary role is to lose to established talent.

   “My argument has ALWAYS been that 99.9% of all wrestlers are jobbers (and I'm 100% correct).”

8. isim A thing (often used in a vague way to refer to something the name of which one cannot recall).
9. isim A job press or platen press.