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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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Dominic Esquibel, who managed the Marge’s Flowers account as a wholesaler, said that the shop’s co-owner, Gloria Kalmes, was well-known in the area.Richard Requena, Chicago Tribune, 7 Jan. 2025
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The brand is already distributed in more than 80 countries through wholesalers and digital marketplaces and has a total of 150 stores and shops-in-shop.Evan Clark, WWD, 2 Jan. 2025
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Over nine months, these big cats systematically attacked workers’ camps at night, dragging victims—who included African laborers, Indian railway workers and even camp supervisors—into the darkness.Scott Travers, Forbes, 12 Jan. 2025
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Hopeful men lined up, waiting for construction jobs that would open when laborers inevitably died on the job.Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Jan. 2025
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Di Marco and Schottenstein are selecting top-tier distributors around the world, bowing at Antonioli, D’Aniello, Dell’Oglio, Nugnes, Biffi, Morini, and Leam in Italy.Luisa Zargani, WWD, 15 Jan. 2025
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Total bundled pay-TV subscribers (minus the virtual multi-video distributors, such as DirecTV Stream) is now 48.18 million.Jason Clinkscales, Sportico.com, 15 Jan. 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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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
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The country has now overtaken Japan as the world's largest auto exporter.Rafael Nam, NPR, 24 Dec. 2024
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For almost two millennia, Afghanistan was an exporter of quality horses to empires in India and China.David Chaffetz, Fortune Asia, 15 Dec. 2024
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Another vendor will be Burn Boot Camp Poway, at 14767 Pomerado Road.Julie Gallant, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Jan. 2025
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So if, as the authors note, hardware vendors are shifting toward low-precision inference, that’s an excellent example.John Werner, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
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Payton once counted Bills offensive coordinator Joe Brady and offensive line coach Aaron Kromer among his assistants with the New Orleans Saints.Nick Kosmider, The Athletic, 13 Jan. 2025
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Gridlock in Midtown On Dec. 27, Parker, 46, who works as an executive assistant for the CEO of a real estate investment firm, finished work near 6th Ave. and 49th St. and was walking to Grand Central to catch her usual train home to Orange County.Graham Rayman, New York Daily News, 12 Jan. 2025
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During the 1985 Christmas season, a coal merchant in an Irish village makes a troubling discovery.The California Independent Booksellers Alliance, Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2025
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Further afield, a merchant vessel found off of Israel’s coast, about 5,900 feet beneath the surface of the Mediterranean Sea, made headlines as the oldest deep-sea shipwreck identified to date.Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Dec. 2024
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“Jobber.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jobber. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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