Word Meanings - STOCKJOBBER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who speculates in stocks for gain; one whose occupation is to buy and sell stocks. In England a jobber acts as an intermediary between brokers.

Related words: (words related to STOCKJOBBER)

• WHOSESOEVER
  The possessive of whosoever. See Whosoever.
• OCCUPATION
  1. The act or process of occupying or taking possession; actual possession and control; the state of being occupied; a holding or keeping; tenure; use; as, the occupation of lands by a tenant. 2. That which occupies or engages the time
• JOBBERY
  1. The act or practice of jobbing. 2. Underhand management; official corruption; as, municipal jobbery. Mayhew.
• WHOSE
  The possessive case of who or which. See Who, and Which. Whose daughter art thou tell me, I pray thee. Gen. xxiv. 23. The question whose solution I require. Dryden.
• JOBBER
  1. One who works by the job. 2. A dealer in the public stocks or funds; a stockjobber. 3. One who buys goods from importers, wholesalers, or manufacturers, and sells to retailers. 4. One who turns official or public business to private advantage;
• BETWEEN
  betweónum; prefix be- by + a form fr. AS. twa two, akin to Goth. 1. In the space which separates; betwixt; as, New York is between Boston and Philadelphia. 2. Used in expressing motion from one body or place to another; from one to another of
• INTERMEDIARY
  Lying, coming, or done, between; intermediate; as, an intermediary project. Intermediary amputation , an amputation for injury, performed after inflammation has set in.
• JOBBERNOWL
  A blockhead. H. Taylor.
• NUTJOBBER
  The nuthatch.
• STOCKJOBBER
  One who speculates in stocks for gain; one whose occupation is to buy and sell stocks. In England a jobber acts as an intermediary between brokers.
• GO-BETWEEN
  An intermediate agent; a broker; a procurer; -- usually in a disparaging sense. Shak.
• INOCCUPATION
  Want of occupation.
• DISOCCUPATION
  The state of being unemployed; want of occupation.
• PREOCCUPATION
  1. The act of preoccupying, or taking possession of beforehand; the state of being preoccupied; prepossession. 2. Anticipation of objections. South.
• GRANGER STOCKS; GRANGER SHARES
  Stocks or shares of the granger railroads.