One who does small jobs; one who buys from merchants to sell to retailers; a middle-man. A “stock-jobber” is one who buys and sells public funds, but is not a sworn stock-broker.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.