[f. JOB v.2 + -ING2.] That ‘jobs,’ in various senses: see JOB v.2
1. That does jobs; employed in odd or occasional pieces of work.
1705. Double Welcome, xlii. A starving Mercenary Priest, A Jobbing, Hackney, Vicious Pulpit Jest.
1746. T. Langley, Builder’s Jewel, Introd. (1757), A ij. Apprentices … bound to Jobbing Masters, who know but little.
1836–7. Dickens, Sk. Boz, Scenes, v. A jobbing man—carpet-beater and so forth.
1850. Beck’s Florist, 298. I never had a jobbing gardener that did not want to get in the saddle himself, and put you on the pillion.
1881. Young, Every Man his own Mechanic, § 187. It is an easy matter … to find a jobbing carpenter.
2. Dealing as a middleman.
1896. Proc. New-Eng. Hist. Geneal. Soc., 105. He was one of the prominent jobbing merchants of this city.
3. Using means to secure private gain or advantage in connection with a public service, etc.; given to jobbery.
1792. Burke, Corr. (1844), IV. 27. The sentiments of the nation must finally decide the dispute between them and the jobbing ascendancy.
a. 1859. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., xxiii. V. 70. Covered with the mansions of his jobbing courtiers.
