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as in wholesaler
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as in laborer
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Recent Examples of jobber
Read full article Now the last-place Sox are the beleaguered jobbers taking a beating at their home park.
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Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Aug. 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
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
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
The antipathy to horsemeat is fast vanishing, says Jim Augustine, the East Bay’s one and only mustang meat jobber.
—Johnny Miller, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Mar. 2018
Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Aug. 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
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
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
The antipathy to horsemeat is fast vanishing, says Jim Augustine, the East Bay’s one and only mustang meat jobber.
—Johnny Miller, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Mar. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for jobber
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Costco is perhaps the most prominent example: Its board of directors unanimously opposed a proposal by the National Center for Public Policy Research, a conservative think tank, for the wholesaler to publish a report on the risks of its DEI policies.—
Russell Leung,
CNBC,
7 Feb. 2025
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And with fewer drivers to transport eggs to retailers, wholesalers are forced to raise shipping costs.—
Anne Marie Lee,
CBS News,
29 Jan. 2025
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The main claim here is that an influx in cheaper low-skilled laborers not only pushes down the cost of goods but negatively impacts preexisting American workers by lowering their wages as well.—
Christian Paz,
Vox,
4 Feb. 2025
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These workers, which do not include undocumented workers or H-2A laborers, are believed to represent 44% of all agricultural workers in Colorado.—
Sam Tabachnik,
The Denver Post,
31 Jan. 2025
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This increase was primarily driven by higher supplier and distributor incentives for Pizza Inn. General and administrative expenses decreased slightly to $1.3 million, compared to $1.3 million in the same quarter of the previous year.—
Quartz Intelligence Newsroom,
Quartz,
6 Feb. 2025
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Increasingly, the answer looks to be specialty drug distributors.—
Claire Rychlewski,
Axios,
5 Feb. 2025
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In other words, exactly the type of drudge work that corporates have outsourced for decades to offshore teams from the likes of Accenture, Cognizant and Infosys.—
Iain Martin,
Forbes,
4 Feb. 2025
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But for those who experienced the desperate, dismal drudge of Forest’s three seasons in League One, the third tier of English football, from 2005-08 — and visits to clubs including Yeovil, Carlisle, Tranmere and Hartlepool — there has been a long wait for moments like this.—
Paul Taylor,
The Athletic,
5 Jan. 2025
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Shipments from all major exporters are lower so far this crop year, with deliveries from Brazil down -45 percent, those from the U.S. down -73 percent, those from Australia down -7 percent, and the sum of deliveries from all other sources down -70 percent.—
SJ Guest Editorial,
Sourcing Journal,
13 Feb. 2025
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Scenario 4 American exporters Imposing tariffs on imports can drive up the value of the U.S. dollar, making American exports more expensive and less competitive.—
June Kim,
New York Times,
12 Feb. 2025
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This annual event features vendors, seminars, food, casting competitions, auction, free fly-tying instruction, beard competition, calling contest, games for kids and more.—
Kay Johnson,
Twin Cities,
7 Feb. 2025
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There's another market at Benchtop Brewing with local vendors, books and brews.—
Sabrina Moreno,
Axios,
6 Feb. 2025
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An assistant discovered Baena's body at a Los Angeles-area home around 10:30 a.m.—
Jen Juneau,
People.com,
17 Feb. 2025
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The Huskers’ 40-year-old running backs coach is the only assistant without terms of a contract revealed for this year.—
Mitch Sherman,
The Athletic,
17 Feb. 2025
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Catherine frequently made off with garments that did not belong to her, stealing coats, dresses, and hats from friends and merchants.—
Mara Bovsun,
New York Daily News,
9 Feb. 2025
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By July, roughly 20% of Temu’s U.S. sales came from those sellers, not merchants based in China, according to e-commerce market research firm Marketplace Pulse.—
Annie Palmer,
CNBC,
6 Feb. 2025
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“Jobber.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jobber. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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