jobber

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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. 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
Noun
  • During an earnings call Wednesday, Eli Lilly instead blamed it on drug wholesalers cutting inventory of Zepbound and Mounjaro.
    Annika Kim Constantino, CNBC, 30 Oct. 2024
  • In 1900, the area was home to a vast open-air market that eventually developed the neighborhood into rows of shops and wholesalers, then started shrinking.
    Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 28 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • But since 2010, changes in the populations that were migrating, and the failure of Congress to update the system with new legal channels for refugees and laborers, have made asylum the default access for migrants coming to the southwest border.
    Julia Preston, Foreign Affairs, 25 Oct. 2024
  • Much like his 19th century predecessors, protection offers Trump an appeal to diverse constituencies: manufacturing interests, union laborers, declining industrial towns in swing states, voters without college educations and access to tech jobs.
    Bruce J. Schulman / Made by History, TIME, 24 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • The film’s distributor previously announced the Jackson biopic would hit theaters on April 18, 2025.
    Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 5 Nov. 2024
  • The filmmakers hope that the film will find a permanent home with a traditional distributor after the election.
    Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 5 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Freed from drudge work, these workers should be empowered to focus on more creative tasks and problem-solving.
    Bloomberg Opinion, Twin Cities, 7 Aug. 2024
  • Finally, give the drone scouts the drudge work, such as tediously scouring a large area.
    Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 9 July 2024
Noun
  • Chinese and global exporters are set to be big winners here, as would defensives over cyclicals.
    Sarah Min, CNBC, 5 Nov. 2024
  • In response, scrutiny is rightly intensifying on the issue of business complicity in crimes against humanity, as companies across sectors—from arms exporters to tech giants—continue to turn profits amid unfathomable violence against civilians.
    Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Two children wearing masks and a food vendor are the only Black people in the video, even though Black people make up 70% of the town’s population.
    Kff Health News, The Mercury News, 8 Nov. 2024
  • Always prioritize vendors with ethical and well-disclosed AI policies.
    Greg Brunk, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Golden is a lawyer who has served as the first assistant in the Jefferson County Attorney's Office and as Louisville's Chief of Public Services.
    Eleanor McCrary, The Courier-Journal, 6 Nov. 2024
  • The two companies joined forces in 2019 to create a pair of glasses powered by Meta’s AI assistant and with a tiny camera on the rim.
    Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 5 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • The city and Village merchants cannot thank them enough.
    Yan Zhao, The Mercury News, 10 Nov. 2024
  • Among the first merchants offering Affirm as a payment method in the U.K. are Alternative Airlines, the flight booking website, and payments processing firm Fexco.
    Ryan Browne, CNBC, 4 Nov. 2024

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“Jobber.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jobber. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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