jobbers

plural of jobber

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Noun
  • Since the Covid-19 pandemic, the city has seen a decline in large scale construction projects, leaving many laborers without steady, long-term employment.
    Karina Tsui, CNN Money, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Local 724, the Hollywood laborers’ group, in a landmark election that took place Friday.
    Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Pinstripes joins countless other retailers shuttering doors Pinstripes is certainly not the first company to file for bankruptcy and shut its doors this year.
    Greta Cross, USA Today, 12 Sep. 2025
  • From Gap to Zara to COS to Favorite Daughter, plenty of brands and retailers are offering polished takes on the wool-blend robe coat with price tags that won't eat up your holiday vacation fund.
    Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • In their place is the attention economy, a dystopian marketplace of slop merchants, brain-rot peddlers, AI scrapyards, and extortionate big-box streaming services with junk on the shelves, all haggling for your time and money.
    Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Affirm, PayPal, Afterpay—everyone is targeting the same merchants and users.
    Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Instead of allowing a disability exception, colleges with tech bans should provide peer tutors, teaching assistants, and writing centers to help students who require extra assistance—low-tech strategies that decades of pedagogical research show to be effective in making education more accessible.
    Tyler Austin Harper, The Atlantic, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Google and Amazon have begun testing ways for their assistants to handle transactions directly, not just recommend products.
    Ron Schmelzer, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The demand, even if lessened, will still warrant offering larger sizes, but some marquee names now want to farm out their plus-sized clothing to outside vendors instead of making their own label.
    Kevin Williams, CNBC, 12 Sep. 2025
  • In May, Gatlin was arrested on charges of defrauding her former employer, including fabricating fake invoices from vendors such as Jones and receiving kickbacks from them.
    Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Like his Washington, Bargatze’s Farnsworth regaled a trio of underlings (SNL cast members Bowen Yang, Mikey Day, and James Austin Johnson) with ridiculous yet accurate predictions for the future, in this case of TV.
    Judy Berman, Time, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Although the underlings complained about my methods, the cartel leaders, like Pedro and his boss, El Viejo, a key deputy of Pablo Escobar, were on my side.
    Martin Suarez, Rolling Stone, 13 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Companies like Shopify and Etsy have provided guidance to help their sellers navigate this new policy.
    Rhett Buttle, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • As a result, the market has slowed down since the beginning of the year, with inventory piling up and giving buyers an opportunity to negotiate prices down with sellers.
    Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The adult beetles emerge in late spring to early summer, but the larvae, or grubs, also are responsible for chewing on turf grass roots in mid to late summer.
    Arricca Elin SanSone, Southern Living, 25 Aug. 2025
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“Jobbers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jobbers. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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