Obs. [Back-formation on STOCK-JOBBER, -JOBBING.] a. trans. To apply the methods of stock-jobbing to, deal with according to the practices of a stock-jobber, employ in stock-jobbing; also fig. Also with complement, to bring down, throw away, bring into (a state), by these methods and practices.
1697. De Foe, Ess. Projects, 13. At last … it has been Stock-Jobb’d down to 10, 12, 9, 8 l. a Share. Ibid. (1701), Freeholder’s Plea, Collect. Writ. 1703, I. 182. Let us be careful that we are not bought and sold, Stock-job’d into Ruin.
1703. T. Baker, Tunbridge-Walks, II. 23. Before I’de have a Wit inherit my Estate, I’de Stockjobb it away at Jonathan’s.
1720. Ramsay, Rise & Fall of Stocks, 22. We madly, at our ain expenses, Stock-job’d away our cash and senses. Ibid. (1721), Answ. Burchet, 12. Let the greedy bike Stock-job the warld amang them as they like.
b. intr. To practise stock-jobbing.
1721. Amherst, Terræ Filius, iv. 19. Only to enable one man … to game, to wench, to stock-job, and indulge himself in all the vanities and vices of the world.
