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Athletics

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Job (professional wrestling) In professional wrestling slang, a job is a losing performance in a wrestling match. It is derived from the euphemism "doing one's job", which was employed to protect information related to kayfabe from being revealed. The term can be used a numbe ...
- A professional wrestler who routinely loses a match. * Wichita Jobbers, a minor league baseball team in the
Western Association The Western Association was the name of five different leagues formed in American minor league baseball during the 19th and 20th centuries. The oldest league, originally established as the Northwestern League in 1883, was refounded as the Western ...
from 1905 to 1911


Commerce

* A person or corporation that engages in
job production Job production, sometimes called jobbing or one-off production, involves producing custom work, such as a one-off product for a specific customer or a small batch of work in quantities usually less than those of mass-market products. Job producti ...
* One who performs odd jobs or
piece work Piece work (or piecework) is any type of employment in which a worker is paid a fixed piece rate for each unit produced or action performed, regardless of time. Context When paying a worker, employers can use various methods and combinations of ...
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Jobber (merchandising) Jobber, in merchandising, can be synonymous with "wholesaler", "distributor", or "intermediary". A business which buys goods and bulk products from importers, other wholesalers, or manufacturers, and then sells to retailers, was historically calle ...
, mass merchandising distributor of goods to retailers *
Jobbing house Jobber, in merchandising, can be synonymous with "wholesaler", "distributor", or "intermediary". A business which buys goods and bulk products from importers, other wholesalers, or manufacturers, and then sells to retailers, was historically calle ...
or jobber, a type of wholesale business *
Jobber (fuel) A jobber, or petroleum marketer, is a person or company that purchases quantities of refined fuel from refining companies (e.g., BP, Royal Dutch Shell, Shell, Exxon), either for sale to retailers (e.g., Filling station, gasoline stations), or to se ...
, a middleman in the fuel industry *
Stockjobber Stockjobbers were institutions that acted as market makers in the London Stock Exchange. The business of stockjobbing emerged in the 1690s during England's Financial Revolution. During the 18th century the jobbers attracted numerous critiques from ...
, a dealer in financial securities * A
retailer Retail is the sale of goods and services to consumers, in contrast to wholesaling, which is sale to business or institutional customers. A retailer purchases goods in large quantities from manufacturers, directly or through a wholesaler, and t ...
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Rack jobber A rack jobber (also known as a rack merchandiser) is a company or trader that has an agreement with a retailer to display and sell products in a store. The outlets for the products would be ones that traditionally do not stock such products such as ...


People

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John McGrath (Westmeath hurler) John "Jobber" McGrath (1928 – 14 April 1980) was an Irish sportsperson. He played hurling with his local club Rickardstown and with the Westmeath senior inter-county team from 1950 until 1965. McGrath was later recognised as "one of the grea ...
(1928–1980), Irish hurler nicknamed "Jobber"


Places

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Jobbers Canyon Historic District Jobbers Canyon Historic District was a large industrial and warehouse area comprising 24 buildings located in downtown Omaha, Nebraska, US. It was roughly bound by Farnam Street on the north, South Eighth Street on the east, Jackson Street on the ...


Publishing

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Jobbing press A jobbing press, job press, or jobber is a variety of printing press used in letterpress printing. The press is meant to be operated by a pressman working on small jobs, as opposed to long print runs or newspaper work, or jobs that require less ...
or jobber, a type of printing press


Tools and equipment

* Jobber, a length of drill bit; see
drill bit sizes Drill bits are the cutting tools of drilling machines. They can be made in any size to order, but standards organizations have defined sets of sizes that are produced routinely by drill bit manufacturers and stocked by distributors. In the U.S., fr ...
* Jobber chairs; see Charles Dillon (designer)


See also

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Job (disambiguation) A job is a regular activity performed in exchange for payment, or a task or project that may or may not be compensated. Job may also refer to: Places * Job, Kentucky, an unincorporated community in the United States * Job, Puy-de-Dôme, a com ...
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Jobbing (disambiguation) Jobbing may refer to: * selling stocks and shares as a stockjobber * jobbing press, a variety of printing press used in letterpress printing used for work other than books and journals (e. g. hand bills, trade cards, etc.) * losing or lying down in ...
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