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Jobber vs Dobber - What's the difference?

jobber | dobber |

As nouns the difference between jobber and dobber

is that jobber is one who works by the job and recruit other people(as in the 19th Century) while dobber is a tool used to play bingo; a dauber.

jobber

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (archaic) One who works by the job and recruit other people(as in the 19th Century).
  • (business) An intermediary who buys and sells merchandise.
  • (US, business) A type of intermediary in the apparel industry, as well as others, who buys excess merchandise from brand owners and manufacturers, and sells to retailers at prices that are 20-70% below wholesale. Because of the negative connotations of the word "jobber," they are now referred to by the more politically-correct term - "Off-price specialists."
  • (British, finance) A market maker on the stock exchange
  • (obsolete, UK, finance) A promoter or broker of stocks for investment.
    • An act to restrain the number and ill practice of brokers and stock jobbers : 8 & 9 Wm. 3, ch. 32 (1697) [legislation of English parliament]
  • a performer whose primary role is to lose to established talent.
  • A thing (often used in a vague way to refer to something the name of which one cannot recall).

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    • dobber

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (US) A tool used to play bingo; a dauber.
  • (UK, derogatory) A member of the working class in Scotland who is seen as undereducated, with poor taste, especially in clothes, and poor social skills; closely connected to chav .
  • (Australia, UK, derogatory) One who dobs (informs against or implicates to authority).
    • Nikki is such a dobber , she told the teacher that I hit Karen in the playground.
  • * 1999 , William De Maria, Deadly Disclosures: Whistleblowing and the Ethical Meltdown of Australia , page 16,
    • In awakening us to our powerlessness, whistleblowers produce all sorts of crisscrossed emotions. Should we respond to them as truth-bearing ethical citizens, or spiteful, griping dobbers ?
  • * 2010 , Lisa Heidke, What Kate Did Next , page 125,
    • ‘Not only that,’ Graeme continued, ‘but Simone?s a dobber' – and no-one likes a ' dobber , do they, K?’
  • * 2011 , James Morton, Susanna Lobez, Gangland Melbourne , page 95,
    • The question was whether the dobber had simply dobbed or whether he had planted the weapons.
  • (British, informal) Any small electronic device that plugs directly into a larger one, such as a wireless scoring system in fencing or a USB mass storage device.
  • (British, chiefly, dialect) A large marble.
  • (US, regional) A float (as used by an angler).
  • * 2007 , William G. Tapply, Trout Eyes: True Tales of Adventure, Travel, and Fly-Fishing , page 191,
    • In attaching this dobber or float, tie it on as short a tippet as you can manage and attach it to the leader from four to six feet above the nymph.
  • A dabchick.

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