jobber
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7.8
- noun
- /ˈdʒɑːbər/
- Jargon
:
mayorista
- When I place orders with book jobbers today, items—regardless of whether they are books, DVDs, or other resources—are shipped to me ready to go on the shelf.
So be careful when you source from jobbers.
- So be careful when you source from jobbers.
Examples
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With his target market in sight, K has one of his jobbers, a commissioned agent in Atlanta, Georgia, acquire the cloths for next to nothing from factories throughout the United States.
Academic text (2006) -
As a jobber, she connects manufacturers with storefronts by buying goods in bulk.
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Vendor websites are a good place to start when seeking titles beyond your normal jobber.
Academic text (2014) -
Some methods that seem especially promising include buying trips, book fairs, and working with vendors and jobbers within South Asia.
Academic text (2015) -
Also in 2011, the library began placing orders for paperback books to be bound at the jobber in such a way that the original covers are visible on the shelf.
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While the case study about building an Africana collection mentioned using the LC field offices, the author emphasized buying trips and working with vendors and jobbers as the primary useful tools for collection development.
Academic text (2015) -
Today, these factories directly employ a third of Belmonte's workforce, and many other residents work as jobbers or travel to sell the factory-made clothing throughout Portugal and Spain.
Academic text (1990) -
The jobber warehouses the cloths in Atlanta and periodically dispatches them in container ships bound for Nigerian ports.
Academic text (2006) -
There appeared to be a clear division between firms that sold branded products to retailers and those that sold generic, generally lower-priced shirts to jobbers (Anon. 1888b: 313-15).
Academic text (2018) -
The jobber purchased a large shipment of electronics to sell to local retailers.
Synonyms
279
2.1
A person or company that buys and sells things to make money
203
2.1
A person or company that buys and sells goods, often in shops
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3.5
A company that supplies products to shops and businesses
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6.7
A person or company that supplies food to shops and restaurants
22
3.5
A person or company that buys goods in large amounts from makers and sells them to shops
14
3.4
A person or company that buys large amounts of goods and sells them to shops
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3.7
A person or business that buys goods to sell to others for profit
A person who sells goods in large amounts to shops
A company or person that supplies goods to shops and businesses
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Jobber comes from the word job, meaning a 'piece of work' or 'task', plus the ending -er, meaning 'a person who does it'. A helpful way to remember it is to think of a jobber as someone whose 'job' is to buy and sell large amounts of goods for shops, so a jobber is a dealer or wholesaler.