jobber

Definition of jobbernext

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Recent Examples of jobber The installers were jobbers who worked for one of the big-box retailers. Tim Carter, Hartford Courant, 26 July 2025 Now the last-place Sox are the beleaguered jobbers taking a beating at their home park. Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Aug. 2023 There’s real love out there for his performance, and his journey from child star to behind-the-scenes jobber to indie heartthrob is the type of narrative that voters can get behind. Vulture, 10 Jan. 2023 Between his backstage segments, and being protected in defeat, Leon Ruff is quietly going from a glorified jobber to a legitimate midcarder. Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 12 May 2021 Gosewich then left the business before its expansion to join Sherman’s Records chain and rack-jobber covering eastern Canada. Karen Bliss, Billboard, 22 Oct. 2019 The push came from independent distributors, known as rack jobbers, that specialized in foods then considered outside the American mainstream — Chinese, Jewish, Italian or of another origin — and were searching for places to sell them. Tim Carman, Washington Post, 30 Sep. 2019 For third-generation jobber Rick Green, who delivers food to about 50 restaurants in Indiana and Michigan, daily runs have become more complicated as Fulton Market’s longtime inhabitants have scattered. Ryan Ori, chicagotribune.com, 13 July 2018 The City had its freewheeling parts—such as the euro markets—but the stock market was carved up by British brokers and jobbers, with Hogwartian names such as Ackroyd & Smithers. Bloomberg.com, 19 Apr. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for jobber
Noun
  • Modern Milkman, also an Ellington business, is the bakery’s biggest wholesaler.
    Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Extensive renovations, including equipment and software, are underway, but the store remains open, said Wafa Hussein, a manager at Grocery Hub and daughter of wholesaler Shaker Hussein, part of the new ownership team.
    Cheryl V. Jackson, IndyStar, 31 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • In contrast, the Fraternal Order of Eagles advocated for pensions for industrial wage laborers—for people who had worked in jobs that wore out their bodies and left them physically unable to work.
    Trevor Jackson, The New York Review of Books, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Harris survived because his older sister, Rosa, worked as a slave laborer in the concentration camp outside of Dęblin.
    Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 2 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The family of 17-year-old Larissa Nicole Rodriguez, a high school student in Weslaco, Texas, is suing Glazer’s Beer and Beverage and Glazer’s Beer and Beverage of Texas, a distributor of Alani Nu energy drinks.
    Fernando Cervantes Jr, USA Today, 11 Apr. 2026
  • The family of a 17-year-old Texas cheerleader has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against a distributor of a popular energy drink, saying the teenager died from an enlarged heart caused by ingesting large amounts of caffeine.
    Marlene Lenthang, NBC news, 10 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Contact retailers for questions about products before ordering.
    Tory Johnson, ABC News, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Get clothing alterations, not just on Nordstrom and Nordstrom Rack items, but also from other retailers.
    Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Although free labor can help a candidate win, volunteers are also seen as a source of risk, best restricted to such drudge work as phone banking or door knocking.
    Charles Duhigg, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Some of the routine tasks given to new hires are drudge work and not a learning experience.
    Justin Hotard, Fortune, 7 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • Oil infrastructure suffered widespread damage over the last six weeks in countries like United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Iraq, Oman and Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest oil exporter.
    Matt Egan, CNN Money, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Add Egypt’s food import bill, and its shift from being a net oil exporter to an importer, and the result is a chronic trade balance deficit.
    Alaa Shahine Salha, semafor.com, 2 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Peterson praised the pedigree of Lee, a two-time world champion as an assistant, and mentioned that players fall in line with his no-nonsense standards.
    Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Reef can’t think of anyone, but his assistant Sammy ( a very funny Ivy Welk) when asked that question has a long list.
    Pete Hammond, Deadline, 9 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • No back orders, unless specified by the individual vendor.
    Tory Johnson, ABC News, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Animal Control contracts an outside vendor, PetData, to handle licensing on its behalf.
    Nick Sullivan, Charlotte Observer, 6 Apr. 2026

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“Jobber.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jobber. Accessed 13 Apr. 2026.

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