Jobbing

The apprentices on Thornton, are what is termed a jobbing gang, that is, they are hired out by their master to any planter who may want their services. ❋ American Anti-Slavery Society (N/A)

Rankin resides in our village of Littleborough, and is by trade what is known as a jobbing gardener. ❋ Various (N/A)

I am told that there is one part of their business very laborious, digging holes for the receiving of cane-plants, which I have not as yet seen; but this does not occupy above a month at the utmost, at two periods of the year; and on my estate this service is chiefly performed by extra negroes, hired for the purpose; which, although equally hard in the hired negroes (called a jobbing gang), at least relieves my own, and after all puts even the former on much the same footing with English day-labourers. ❋ Matthew Gregory (1845)

Lap 41: "What the **** do you mean by 'jobbing'?" retorts jobbing comedian Josh Widdicombe. ❋ Tom Bryant (2010)

If you are a 'jobbing' scientist working on the African HIV issue, I might take you seriously. ❋ EliRabett (2010)

There, my mother ran a small retail "dry goods" store, while my father engaged in a succession of mostly unsuccessful "jobbing" ventures. ❋ Unknown (1992)

How they are supplied with the book, posted as to its merits, and enabled to take care of whatever demands arise, is the wholesale, or "jobbing," side of book selling. ❋ Various (N/A)

Or if to the respectable conclave above-stairs, who would have recoiled indignantly at the vulgar word "jobbing," had been hinted a phrase – which ran oddly in and out of the nooks of my brain, keeping time to the murmur in the street, "Vox populi, vox dei" – truly, I should have got little credit for my Latinity. ❋ Unknown (1897)

He himself was in the "jobbing" line, and was always jogging about in a cart, in the hind part of which, covered with a net, was a calf or a couple of pigs. ❋ Mark Rutherford (1872)

"Oh, well," said the man vaguely, "it's hard to estimate on this kind of jobbing work." ❋ Edward Payson Roe (1863)

It's pronounced "jobbing" like working, not after the Book of Job. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Wenman was arrested after the police were called and admitted he was a 'jobbing' gardener who travelled the country carrying out work on a casual basis, the barrister added.

Apparently the refs weren't paid quite enough for the entire game by 'Bama .... they stopped "jobbing" UT in the 3rd quarter. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The latter part of the answer means just this: that the landlords were already turning the public works to their private gain, by getting numbers of their well-to-do tenants, often with their carts and horses, upon those works, in order to obtain their own rents more securely; a practice of which they were repeatedly accused by the Board of Works 'people; and that, therefore, if townland boundaries were conceded, the landlords would have increased power, and a still greater amount of the same kind of jobbing would be the inevitable result. ❋ John O'Rourke (N/A)

"jobbing" with the professor -- and coming home late at night to get the supper and to split the wood and to bring the water for the next day's supply. ❋ Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth (1859)

"jobbing," had been hinted a phrase -- which ran oddly in and out of the nooks of my brain, keeping time to the murmur in the street, "Vox populi, vox Dei" -- truly, I should have got little credit for my ❋ Dinah Maria Mulock Craik (1856)

In addition, in Britain's cities at least, much architecture was created not by altruistic visionaries or enlightened patrons but by jobbing builders and small-estate owners. ❋ Unknown (2011)