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Athletics

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Job (professional wrestling) In professional wrestling slang, a job is a losing performance in a wrestling match. It is derived from "doing one's job,” a euphemism to hide kayfabe-related information. When a wrestler is booked to lose a match, it is described as "a job". ...
- A professional wrestler who routinely loses a match. * Wichita Jobbers, a minor league baseball team in the
Western Association The Western Association was the name of five different leagues formed in American minor league baseball during the 19th and 20th centuries. The oldest league, originally established as the Northwestern League in 1883, was refounded as the Wester ...
from 1905 to 1911


Commerce

* A person or corporation that engages in
job production Job production, sometimes called jobbing or one-off production, involves producing custom work, such as a one-off product for a specific customer or a small batch of work in quantities usually less than those of mass-market products. Job produc ...
* One who performs odd jobs or
piece work Piece work or piecework is any type of employment in which a worker is paid a fixed piece rate for each unit produced or action performed, regardless of time. Context When paying a worker, employers can use various methods and combinations of m ...
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Jobber (merchandising) Jobber, in merchandising, can be synonymous with "wholesaler", "distributor", or "intermediary". A business which buys goods and bulk products from importers, other wholesalers, or manufacturers, and then sells to retailers, was historically calle ...
, mass merchandising distributor of goods to retailers *
Jobbing house Jobber, in merchandising, can be synonymous with " wholesaler", "distributor", or "intermediary". A business which buys goods and bulk products from importers, other wholesalers, or manufacturers, and then sells to retailers, was historically call ...
or jobber, a type of wholesale business *
Jobber (fuel) A jobber, or petroleum marketer, is a person or company that purchases quantities of refined fuel from refining companies (e.g., BP, Shell, Exxon), either for sale to retailers (e.g., gasoline stations), or to sell directly to the users of those ...
, a middleman in the fuel industry *
Stockjobber Stockjobbers were institutions that acted as market makers in the London Stock Exchange. The business of stockjobbing emerged in the 1690s during England's Financial Revolution. During the 18th century, the jobbers attracted numerous critique ...
, a dealer in financial securities * A
retailer Retail is the sale of goods and services to consumers, in contrast to wholesaling, which is the sale to business or institutional customers. A retailer purchases goods in large quantities from manufacturers, directly or through a wholesal ...
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Rack jobber A rack jobber (also known as a rack merchandiser) is a company or trader having an agreement with a retailer to display and sell products in a store. The outlets for the products would be ones which traditionally do not stock such products such as ...
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Meat jobber A meat jobber, also known as a meat wholesaler or meat distributor is an entity that purchases meat products from producers, typically in large quantities, and sells them to retailers. Meat jobbers came to prominence in the 1940s, as the American ...


People

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John McGrath (Westmeath hurler) John "Jobber" McGrath (1928 – 14 April 1980) was an Irish sportsperson. He played hurling with his local club Rickardstown and with the Westmeath senior inter-county team from 1950 until 1965. McGrath was later recognised as "one of the gre ...
(1928–1980), Irish hurler nicknamed "Jobber"


Places

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Jobbers Canyon Historic District Jobbers Canyon Historic District was a large industrial and warehouse area comprising 24 buildings located in downtown Omaha, Nebraska, US. It was roughly bound by Farnam Street on the north, South Eighth Street on the east, Jackson Street on th ...


Publishing

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Jobbing press A jobbing press, job press, or jobber is a variety of printing press used in letterpress printing. The press is meant to be operated by a pressman working on Job production, small jobs, as opposed to long print runs or newspaper work, or jobs tha ...
or jobber, a type of printing press


Tools and equipment

* Jobber, a length of drill bit; see
drill bit sizes Drill bits are the cutting tools of drill, drilling machines. They can be made in any size to order, but standards organizations have defined sets of sizes that are produced routinely by drill bit manufacturers and stocked by distributors. In the ...
* Jobber chairs; see
Charles Dillon (designer) Charles Dillon was a British furniture designer. He and his wife, Jane Dillon ran an international design studio between 1971 and 1982 making significant contributions to furniture design and lighting design across America and Europe. Their st ...


See also

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Job (disambiguation) A job is a regular activity performed in exchange for payment, or a task or project that may or may not be compensated. Job or JOB may also refer to: Places * Job, Kentucky, an unincorporated community in the United States * Job, Puy-de-Dôm ...
* Jobbing (disambiguation) * * {{disambig