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jobbery
[ job-uh-ree ]
noun
- the conduct of public or official business for the sake of improper private gain.
jobbery
/ ˈ»åÏôÉ’²úÉ™°ùɪ /
noun
- the practice of making private profit out of a public office; corruption or graft
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Example Sentences
If you were here I think I could, and would if I could, do a little jobbery on your account.
Sumner’s distinction between “jobbery†and true capitalism is one that many voters would be thrilled to see Mr. Trump recognize.
But Tory politics and common-room scandal and jobbery apart, the University would appear to have slept the sleep of the unjust.
The public securities were often counterfeited, official signatures forged, and plunder and jobbery openly indulged in.
The unscrupulous recourse of the government to jobbery and corruption is not more revolting than the evidence of the increasing constitutional power of the Commons is interesting.
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