jobbing

adj. (U.K.) working on a temporary basis; doing add jobs; taking advantage of opportunities of public service for personal gain

v. do paid work now and then, do odd jobs; work as a middleman, buy and sell; hire temporarily for a specific task; portion out pieces of work to different individuals; punish or take away unfairly

Jobbing or To Job has the following meanings:In the wholesale mercantile business refers to:"Jobbing center", to buy wholesale products to sell to retailers.Used in Pop CultureUsed as a verb in Professional wrestling. "jobbing" means to lose or lie down.
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Noun
1. the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money; "he's not in my line of business"
(synonym) occupation, business, line of work, line
(hypernym) activity
(hyponym) sport
2. a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee; "estimates of the city's loss on that job ranged as high as a million dollars"; "the job of repairing the engine took several hours"; "the endless task of classifying the samples"; "the farmer's morning chores"
(synonym) task, chore
(hypernym) duty
(hyponym) ball-buster, ball-breaker
3. the performance of a piece of work; "she did an outstanding job as Ophelia"; "he gave it up as a bad job"
(hypernym) work
4. the responsibility to do something; "it is their job to print the truth"
(hypernym) duty, responsibility, obligation
5. a workplace; as in the expression "on the job";
(hypernym) workplace, work
6. an object worked on; a result produced by working; "he held the job in his left hand and worked on it with his right"
(hypernym) product, production
7. a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved; "she and her husband are having problems"; "it is always a job to contact him"; "urban problems such as traffic congestion and smog"
(synonym) problem
(hypernym) difficulty
(hyponym) race problem
8. a damaging piece of work; "dry rot did the job of destroying the barn"; "the barber did a real job on my hair"
(hypernym) work
9. a crime (especially a robbery); "the gang pulled off a bank job in St. Louis"
(synonym) caper
(hypernym) robbery
10. (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit
(hypernym) application, application program, applications programme
(classification) computer science, computing
Verb
1. profit privately from public office and official business
(hypernym) cheat, chisel
2. arranged for contracted work to be done by others
(synonym) subcontract, farm out
(hypernym) hire, engage, employ
3. work occasionally; "As a student I jobbed during the semester breaks"
(hypernym) work, do work
4. invest at a risk; "I bought this house not because I want to live in it but to sell it later at a good price, so I am speculating"
(synonym) speculate
(hypernym) invest, put, commit, place
(hyponym) bull

(p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Job
  

(a.)
Using opportunities of public service for private gain; as, a jobbing politician.
  

(a.)
Doing chance work or add jobs; as, a jobbing carpenter.
  

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<operating system> All the activities involved in completing any project on a computer from start to finish. A job may involve several processes and several programs.
This term is rather old fashioned and harks back to the days of batch processing where a user would submit his job as a deck of punched cards which would typically include source code interspersed with job control language instructions to guide the various phases of the job such as compilation, linking, execution and printing.
(1995-05-07)