Crossword clues for jobber
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Jobber \Job"ber\, n.
One who works by the job.
A dealer in the public stocks or funds; a stockjobber.
One who buys goods from importers, wholesalers, or manufacturers, and sells to retailers.
One who turns official or public business to private advantage; hence, one who performs low or mercenary work in office, politics, or intrigue.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"one who does odd jobs," 1706, agent noun from job.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context archaic English) One who works by the job and recruit other people(as in the 19th Century). 2 (context business English) An intermediary who buys and sells merchandise. 3 (context US business English) A type of intermediary in the apparel industry, as well as others, who buys excess merchandise from brand owners and manufacturers, and sells to retailers at prices that are 20-70% below wholesale. Because of the negative connotations of the word "jobber," they are now referred to by the more politically-correct term - "Off-price specialists." 4 (context British finance English) A market maker on the stock exchange 5 (context obsolete UK finance English) A promoter or broker of stocks for investment. 6 (context professional wrestling slang English) a performer whose primary role is to lose to established talent. 7 A thing (often used in a vague way to refer to something the name of which one cannot recall).
WordNet
n. someone who buys large quantities of goods and resells to merchants rather than to the ultimate customers [syn: middleman, wholesaler]
Wikipedia
Jobber may refer to:
Athletics- A professional wrestler who routinely loses a match - see Job (professional wrestling)
- Wichita Jobbers, a minor league baseball team in the Western Association from 1905 to 1911
- A person or corporation that engages in job production
- One who performs odd jobs or piece work
- Jobber, mass merchandising distributor of goods to retailers
- Jobbing house or jobber, a type of wholesale business
- Jobber (fuel), a middleman in the fuel industry
- Stockjobber, a dealer in financial securities
- A retailer, particularly within the automobile industry
- Rack jobber
- Stockjobber
- John McGrath (Westmeath hurler) (1928–1980), Irish hurler nicknamed "Jobber"
- Jobbers Canyon Historic District
- Jobbing press or jobber, a type of printing press
- Jobber, a length of drill bit - see drill bit sizes
- Jobber (software), task management software
- Jobber chairs
A jobber, or petroleum marketer, is a person or company that purchases quantities of refined fuel from refining companies (e.g. BP, Shell, Exxon), either for sale to retailers (e.g., gasoline stations), or to sell directly to the users of those products (e.g., home heating oil to homeowners, lubricating oils to industrial operations or repair shops, jet fuel to FBOs, etc.). In essence, the jobber acts as the "middleman" between the company that refines the petroleum products and those that either use them or market them at retail prices. The jobber often owns the gasoline being sold, and the station it is being sold to, but allows an operator to lease the store.
In 2001, 44.3% of all gasoline in the U.S. was sold through jobbers. Approximately the same percentage was sold through integrated oil company owned and operated stores or franchise arrangements. The percentage of jobbers responsible for fuel sale in the USA in 2004 fell to 37.3%.
Jobbers are represented by trade associations such as the *The Association for Convenience & Fuel Retailing, *National Association of Shell Marketers, *SIGMA: America's Leading Fuel Marketers and the *Petroleum Marketers Association of America.
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Jobber, in merchandising, can be synonymous with " wholesaler" or " distributor" or " broker" or " middleman." A jobber is a merchant — e.g., (i) a wholesaler or (ii) reseller or (iii) independent distributor operating on consignment — who takes goods in quantity from manufacturers or importers and sells or resells or distributes them to retail chains and syndicates, particularly supermarkets, department stores, drug chains, and the like. One objective is to distribute goods at lower costs through economies of scale, which, in sophisticated operations, typically uses complex transportation models. In competitive markets, the practice is an integral part of supply chain management — one that might incorporate, among other things, operations research in areas of logistics involving supply chain networking, and supply chain optimization.
Usage examples of "jobber".
But owing to the stupid money system, which these laborers them selves help to keep in force, the results of their combined efforts were either usurped by an unproductive class fortunate enough to be born rich, or those shrewd enough to accumulate money, such as trust managers, bankers, real estate speculators, stock jobbers, and brokers, gamblers, burglars, money loan swindlers, high salaried clergymen, etc.
Importers must incur the expense of handling and reselling before the product is ready for the jobbers.
Like the jobbers who flocked to the Moon and the Maldives when Lunar City and the Skyhook had to be built .
The architects had promptly fed them to the construction jobbers so the raw materials could be reworked into a place Humans would be comfortable with.
They had found maintenance jobbers in the corridors and ordered them to repair the wiring and cut apart the booby traps.
Keale had sealed off most of the voice commands to everyone but the crew, but jobbers answered anyone.
He will not buy of the home jobbers at the same price, for he feels that he is building up his competitor.
I have seen a great many jobbers who had spent time and money trying to get control of all the trade in their own city, but I never saw one who did not finally give up in disgust.
Every little cross-roads store had its 5 and 10 cent counters, and manufacturers and jobbers cut in prices to cater to it.
The decline is made to a few jobbers, and they at once start out their men to give it to the retailers, and to use it as a bait, and when other jobbers learn it they combine to squeeze the price down so that all can get it.
Morris and I took dinner at the hotel where the trio of government jobbers were stopping.
Balfour made plain in an admirable speech, whether the great occasions of the peace and after the peace are to be handled by a grand council of all that is best and most leaderlike in the nation, or whether they are to be left to a few leaders, apparently leading, but really profoundly swayed by the obscure crowd of politicians and jobbers behind them.
Soon sheds were added to the Limb-side Inns, serving as Depots for the Jobbers who buy direct from the Bud.
The members who composed it were, seven-eighths of them, office-holders, office-seekers, pimps, malignants, conspirators, murderers, fancy-men, custom-house clerks, contractors, kept-editors, spaniels well-train’d to carry and fetch, jobbers, infidels, disunionists, terrorists, mail-riflers, slave-catchers, pushers of slavery, creatures of the President, creatures of would-be Presidents, spies, blowers, electioneerers, bawlers, bribers, compromisers, lobbyers, sponges, ruined sports, expell’d gamblers, policy-backers, monte-dealers, duelists, carriers of conceal’d weapons, deaf’ men, pimpled men, scarr’d inside with vile disease, gaudy outside with gold chains made from the people’s money and harlot’s money twisted together.
And, that none of the middle or upper class may escape, the edict subjects to special rigor, supplementary taxes, and arbitrary arrest, not alone property-holders and fund-holders, but again all persons designated under the following heads, - aristocrats, Feuillants, moderates, Girondists, federalists, muscadins, the superstitious, fanatics the abettors of royalism, of superstition and of federation, monopolists, jobbers, egoists, "suspects " of incivism, and, generally, all who are indifferent to the Revolution, of which local committees are to draw up the lists.