Word Meanings - JOBBERY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act or practice of jobbing. 2. Underhand management; official corruption; as, municipal jobbery. Mayhew.

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• CORRUPTIONIST
  One who corrupts, or who upholds corruption. Sydney Smith.
• OFFICIALISM
  The state of being official; a system of official government; also, adherence to office routine; red-tapism. Officialism may often drift into blunders. Smiles.
• MUNICIPALLY
  In a municipal relation or condition.
• PRACTICER
  1. One who practices, or puts in practice; one who customarily performs certain acts. South. 2. One who exercises a profession; a practitioner. 3. One who uses art or stratagem. B. Jonson.
• CORRUPTION
  1. The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration. The inducing and accelerating of putrefaction is a subject
• OFFICIALTY
  The charge, office, court, or jurisdiction of an official. Ayliffe.
• OFFICIAL
  1. One who holds an office; esp., a subordinate executive officer or attendant. 2. An ecclesiastical judge appointed by a bishop, chapter, archdeacon, etc., with charge of the spiritual jurisdiction. Blackstone.
• PRACTICED
  1. Experienced; expert; skilled; as, a practiced marksman. "A practiced picklock." Ld. Lytton. 2. Used habitually; learned by practice.
• MUNICIPALISM
  Municipal condition.
• PRACTICE
  A easy and concise method of applying the rules of arithmetic to questions which occur in trade and business. (more info) also, practique, LL. practica, fr. Gr. Practical, and cf. Pratique, 1. Frequently repeated or customary action;
• JOBBERY
  1. The act or practice of jobbing. 2. Underhand management; official corruption; as, municipal jobbery. Mayhew.
• MUNICIPALIZE
  To bring under municipal oversight or control; as, a municipalized industry. London people are now determined to centralize and to municipalize such services. The Century.
• UNDERHANDEDLY
  In an underhand manner.
• JOBBING
  1. Doing chance work or add jobs; as, a jobbing carpenter. 2. Using opportunities of public service for private gain; as, a jobbing politician. London Sat. Rev. Jobbing house, a mercantile establishment which buys from importers, wholesalers or
• JOBBER
  1. One who works by the job. 2. A dealer in the public stocks or funds; a stockjobber. 3. One who buys goods from importers, wholesalers, or manufacturers, and sells to retailers. 4. One who turns official or public business to private advantage;
• UNDERHAND
  Done, as pitching, with the hand lower than the shoulder, or, as bowling, with the hand lower than elbow. (more info) 1. Secret; clandestine; hence, mean; unfair; fraudulent. Addison.
• OFFICIALLY
  By the proper officer; by virtue of the proper authority; in pursuance of the special powers vested in an officer or office; as, accounts or reports officially vertified or rendered; letters officially communicated; persons officially notified.
• UNDERHANDED
  1. Underhand; clandestine. 2. Insufficiently provided with hands or workers; short-handed; sparsely populated. Norway . . . might defy the world, . . . but it is much underhanded now. Coleridge.
• MANAGEMENT
  1. The act or art of managing; the manner of treating, directing, carrying on, or using, for a purpose; conduct; administration; guidance; control; as, the management of a family or of a farm; the management of state affairs. "The management of
• OFFICIALITY
  See OFFICIALTY
• INOFFICIALLY
  Without the usual forms, or not in the official character.
• NUTJOBBER
  The nuthatch.
• INCORRUPTION
  The condition or quality of being incorrupt or incorruptible; absence of, or exemption from, corruption. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption. 1 Cor. xv.
• STOCKJOBBER
  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.
• MISMANAGEMENT
  Wrong or bad management; as, he failed through mismagement.
• MALPRACTICE
  Evil practice; illegal or immoral conduct; practice contrary to established rules; specifically, the treatment of a case by a surgeon or physician in a manner which is contrary to accepted rules and productive of unfavorable results.
• EXTRA-OFFICIAL
  Not prescribed by official duty.
• INOFFICIAL
  Not official; not having official sanction or authoriy; not according to the forms or ceremony of official business; as, inofficial intelligence. Pinckney and Marshall would not make inofficial visits to discuss official business. Pickering. Syn.