[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

job \job\ jo^b, v. t. imp.  p. p. jobbed jo^bd; p.
   pr.  vb. n. jobbing.
   1913 webster
   1. to strike or stab with a pointed instrument. --l'estrange.
      1913 webster

   2. to thrust in, as a pointed instrument. --moxon.
      1913 webster

   3. to do or cause to be done by separate portions or lots; to
      sublet work; as, to job a contract.
      1913 webster

   4. com. to buy and sell, as a broker; to purchase of
      importers or manufacturers for the purpose of selling to
      retailers; as, to job goods.
      1913 webster

   5. to hire or let by the job or for a period of service; as,
      to job a carriage. --thackeray.
      1913 webster
see also:
jobbed jobbing 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

jobbing \job"bing\, a.
   1. doing chance work or odd jobs; as, a jobbing carpenter.
      1913 webster

   2. using opportunities of public service for private gain;
      as, a jobbing politician. --london sat. rev.
      1913 webster

   jobbing house, a mercantile establishment which buys from
      importers, wholesalers or manufacturers, and sells to
      retailers. u.s.
      1913 webster
see also:
jobbing house 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

jobbing
     see job
see also:
job 

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

job
     n 1: the principal activity in your life that you do to earn
          money; "he's not in my line of business" syn: occupation,
           business, line of work, line
     2: a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or
        for a specific fee; "estimates of the city's loss on that
        job ranged as high as a million dollars"; "the job of
        repairing the engine took several hours"; "the endless
        task of classifying the samples"; "the farmer's morning
        chores" syn: task, chore
     3: the performance of a piece of work; "she did an outstanding
        job as ophelia"; "he gave it up as a bad job"
     4: the responsibility to do something; "it is their job to
        print the truth"
     5: a workplace; as in the expression "on the job";
     6: an object worked on; a result produced by working; "he held
        the job in his left hand and worked on it with his right"
     7: a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved; "she and
        her husband are having problems"; "it is always a job to
        contact him"; "urban problems such as traffic congestion
        and smog" syn: problem
     8: a damaging piece of work; "dry rot did the job of destroying
        the barn"; "the barber did a real job on my hair"
     9: a crime especially a robbery; "the gang pulled off a bank
        job in st. louis" syn: caper
     10: a jewish hero in the old testament who maintained his faith
         in god in spite of afflictions that tested him
     11: any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without
         despairing
     12: computer science a program application that may consist of
         several steps but is a single logical unit
     13: a book in the old testament containing job's pleas to god
         about his afflictions and god's reply syn: book of job
     v 1: profit privately from public office and official business
     2: arranged for contracted work to be done by others syn: subcontract,
         farm out
     3: work occasionally; "as a student i jobbed during the
        semester breaks"
     4: invest at a risk; "i bought this house not because i want to
        live in it but to sell it later at a good price, so i am
        speculating" syn: speculate
     also: jobbing, jobbed
see also:
occupation business line of work line task chore 
problem caper book of job subcontract farm out 
speculate jobbing jobbed 

[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

51 moby thesaurus words for "jobbing":
   machiavellianism, machiavellism, agency, barter, bartering,
   brokerage, buying and selling, consumer preference study,
   consumer research, consumer survey, dealing, diplomacy,
   diplomatics, direct-mail selling, doing business, exchange,
   give-and-take, hard sell, hawking, high-pressure salesmanship,
   horse trading, huckstering, interchange, jobbery, legal bucketing,
   low-pressure salesmanship, mail-order selling, market research,
   marketing, marketing research, merchandising, peddling, politics,
   promotion, retailing, sales campaign, sales promotion,
   salesmanship, selling, sellout, soft sell, stockbrokerage,
   stockbroking, stockjobbery, stockjobbing, swapping, trade, trading,
   trafficking, wheeling and dealing, wholesaling

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