jobbing's Usage Examples:

The city has a large jobbing trade, a coal supply from rich deposits in Pierce county, and abundant water-power from swift mountain streams, which is used for generating electricity for municipal and industrial use.

The city is in one of the most productive coal regions of the state, has a large jobbing trade, and is an important centre for the insurance business.

The city carries on a considerable jobbing business for the farming region of which it is the centre and produce market.

The city is situated in the midst of a rich agricultural region and is a supply centre for southern Kansas and Oklahoma, with large jobbing interests.

Cedar Rapids has also a large grain trade and a large jobbing business, especially in dry goods, millinery, groceries, paper and drugs.

Laredo is a jobbing centre for trade between the United States and Mexico, and is a sub-port of entry in the Corpus Christi Customs District.

Troy is the market for a fertile agricultural region, and the principal jobbing centre for a large district in north-eastern New York and eastern Massachusetts.

Beside the local trade of a rich surrounding farming country, the railway facilities of St Joseph have enabled it to build up a great jobbing trade (especially in dry goods), and this is still the greatest economic interest of the city.

The city has a large jobbing and retail trade.

Alexandria is a distributing and jobbing centre for the north-east counties of Virginia.

Synonyms:

career, appointment, farming, accountancy, medium, place, biz, salt mine, land, office, game, profession, line, accounting, sport, situation, work, spot, employment, treadmill, craft, catering, calling, post, confectionery, activity, trade, billet, position, metier, berth, photography, business, line of work, occupation, vocation,

Antonyms:

high status, dominant, disarrange, deglycerolize, inactivity,