[Cf. JOBBER2 and -ERY.]
1. Jobs or small pieces of work collectively; job-work. rare. (In quot. attrib.)
1832. J. H. Newman, Lett. (1891), I. 294. Coal, which the foreign jobbery heavers are conveying into the vessel.
2. The practice of corruptly turning a public office, trust, etc., to private gain or advantage; the perpetration of jobs (see JOB sb.2 3).
1837. Sir F. Palgrave, Merch. & Friar, Ded. (1844), 7. A notable example of the ancient mode of Parliamentary jobbery.
1852. Miss Yonge, Cameos (1877), III. xxiv. 225. He was now staining the honour of that seat by his intrigues and jobbery.
1861. Goldw. Smith, Irish Hist., 184. Inveterate habits of official jobbery and party corruption.
1893. Times, 26 April, 9/5. Mr. Bryce, incited by his Lancashire friends, aspired to wider opportunities of jobbery.
