jobber
An actor temporarily employed for a specific role, often in a touring companyAn actor temporarily employed for a specific role, often in a touring company.
Meaning
9 sensesAn actor temporarily employed for a specific role, often in a touring company.
An intermediary who buys and sells merchandise.
An intermediary who buys and sells merchandise.
(US)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.
(UK)A market maker on the stock exchange; a stockjobber.
(slang)A performer whose primary role is to lose to established talent.
(slang)A thing (often used in a vague way to refer to something the name of which one cannot recall).
A job press or platen press.
(archaic)One who works by the job (i.e. paid per individual piece of work) and/or recruits other people for such work.
(UK, obsolete)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]
- someone who buys large quantities of goods and resells to merchants rather than to the ultimate customers
Origin
From job + -er.From job + -er.
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