What is "jobbery"

Usage examples of "jobbery".

In New Zealand, we are told, on the best authority, that land monopoly and land jobbery were never so rampant in the Dominion as since the introduction of the progressive land tax.

They come into parliament not to forward the great interests they ostensibly support, but with an eye to the railway jobbery, corporation business, concessions and financial operations that necessarily go on in and about the national legislature.

There is more conceit and less jobbery behind the criticisms of this type of mind.

Colonial Government having really, in spite of all the jobbery and political capital alleged to have been perpetrated and made in connexion with this concern, made great sacrifices in its behalf, is not likely, having got the Railway planted on its own soil, to be ready to give much more assistance to this same undertaking.

Terrible away, as shabby a piece of favouritism and jobbery as the service has ever known.

I met them as I was returning home, and as we walked along Mr Silverlight declaimed loquaciously against the civil list and the whole apparatus of jobbery that kept honest merit unrewarded.

Excellent, too, is the passage in which his subordinate speaks of crushing the enemy in America, and Burgoyne asks him who will crush their enemies in England, snobbery and jobbery and incurable carelessness and sloth.

No one knew more about taking advantage of purchasing than Sandwich himself, up to his elbows in jobbery throughout his career.

New York State Republican Convention to do the jobbery of Boss Barnes.

Although not a dilettante but a hardworking enthusiast of the fleet, his inveterate jobbery left dockyards a scandal, provisioners defrauded and ships unseaworthy.

Jobbery in the yards had, in truth, left ships unseaworthy, under-equipped, unprovisioned and undermanned.