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Example sentences for "jobber"

Lexicographically close words:
jitneys; jitsu; job; jobbed; jobbers; jobbery; jobbing; jobless; jobs
  1. Anxiety for my health and life Borough-jobber I shall never know, though all the coffeehouses here do.

  2. Radway could do it for less, because, for some strange reason which you yourself do not understand, a jobber can always log for less than a company.

  3. It amused Dyer to withhold the timely word, so leaving the jobber to flounder between his easy nature and his sense of what should be done.

  4. We want to get in every stick of timber we own so as to be able to clear out of here for good and all at the close of the season; and now this condigned jobber ties us up for a million and a half.

  5. I think I can, Mr. Daly," the jobber assured him.

  6. The jobber showed strong traces of the strain he had undergone, but greeted Thorpe almost jovially.

  7. Often it was bitter cold, but no one dared to suggest to the determined jobber that it might be better to remain indoors.

  8. The old jobber faced the men calmly, almost humorously, and somehow the very bigness of the man commanded attention.

  9. Of intention Louisa did not snub him, the stock-jobber was not rude to him deliberately, but both felt that their girl had done badly indeed for herself, and their very tones in addressing him were new and resentful.

  10. When the stock-jobber loses, he is very apt to be condemned; but I rather think his character rises in proportion to his gains.

  11. Mal-practices—he had better look at his own, for he is a pig-jobber too.

  12. All these the dry-goods jobber provides for his customer, the retailer, who in his turn will dispense them to the consumer.

  13. None but those who are in the business know the assiduous attention with which the dry-goods jobber follows up his customers.

  14. Nobody but a jobber can know the vexation of a jobber who cannot find money to cash his notes when they are beginning to be thrown into the market at a price a shade lower than his neighbor's notes are sold at.

  15. From year's end to year's end, the dry-goods jobber finds himself necessitated to be studying his stock and his ledger.

  16. Many a time is the jobber enabled and inclined to purchase largely only by the assurance that from the time of his purchase the price will be advanced.

  17. The outside world reason from the assumption, that the jobber might, but will not, avoid taking considerable risks.

  18. What are the perplexities which beset the question, To whom shall the jobber sell his goods?

  19. The manufacturer who doesn't advertise has to | | depend on the jobber and the retailer.

  20. You give a feller out in Kansas City two months an extension because he done a bad spring business, and you got sympathy for him, and the first thing you know, Abe, a jobber out in Omaha gets a judgment against him and closes him up.

  21. They buy their whole stock from a jobber in Buffalo and they got an idee that Russian blouses is the latest up-to-the-minute effect in garments.

  22. To carry on the business of a jobber in merchandise or stocks.

  23. In England a jobber acts as an intermediary between brokers.

  24. The San Antonio jobber took his business elsewhere some five years ago.

  25. That San Antonio jobber Winchester had such a hard time landing.

  26. To him, then, a complaint from a San Antonio jobber that the buttons on his pants aren't right has all the importance that the same complaint, echoed by a hundred different customers, would have to the retail merchant.

  27. North was a parliamentary jobber of the same type as Newcastle.

  28. Trade Discount--The discount allowed by a manufacturer to a jobber or by a jobber to a retailer.

  29. He himself was utterly unarmed, but the stock-jobber had a pair of horse-pistols, and as this recollection flashed upon him, the pause of deliberation ceased.

  30. No sooner had the witty stock-jobber left the room than Mrs. Copperas seemed to expand into a new existence.

  31. The jobber takes into consideration the facts he has been able to learn concerning the book, and places an order accordingly.

  32. A jobber has to be something of an optimist; he must keep his ear to the ground, and, like certain types of politicians, must be prepared to give the people what they want when they want it.

  33. The right book is usually sent, and not often is the jobber found to be at fault.

  34. The jobber has therefore to size up a book early in the game, without perhaps having seen anything relating to it except the publisher's advance notices.

  35. The jobber must know this and give the information to his customer promptly.

  36. Your Ma was thoroughly sold on this idea, although I calculate she didn't have to be persuaded much harder than a shoe jobber does to take a thousand cases at present prices, when he thinks the market is going up.

  37. But when it comes to having her for a daughter-in-law, I can think up more reasons for not wanting her, than a jobber can for refusing to stock a line of shoes he feels may be out of style, before he can unload them on the retailer.

  38. Occasionally the jobber runs considerable risk, since, after concluding a bargain, and while endeavouring to obtain a profit on it, the market may turn.

  39. Query,--When a broker has to buy and sell for two different principals, may he not act as a jobber also, and put the turns into his own pocket?

  40. Bank, to save themselves time they got accommodated among these gamblers in buying or selling as they wished; at the same time they gave the jobber one-eighth per cent, for such accommodation.

  41. In this way does the floating stock pass and repass through the Stock Exchange to and from the public, each jobber seizing and laying his hand on as much as he can, besides the eighth per cent.

  42. Protruding from a narrow aperture in the mortar he noted a thin piece of steel, such as he fancied was used by women in the shaping of their apparel.

  43. You have played the leech, I hear, and have delivered a suffering old warrior out of the womb of Castle Yewe?

  44. Thus he was complacently able to supply his department store with many goods at cost, and pocket the profits that otherwise would have gone to jobber and manufacturer.


  45. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "jobber" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    agent; breadwinner; broker; casual; connection; dealer; distributor; employee; flunky; hand; intermediary; jobber; laborer; liaison; link; mediator; medium; menial; merchant; middleman; migrant; monger; navvy; proletarian; retailer; roustabout; servant; shopkeeper; specialist; stiff; stockbroker; storekeeper; temporary; tie; toiler; trader; wholesaler; worker; workingman; workman