jobbing

Noun

Buying and selling stocks or goods for profit; mercenary trading. / The fact or practice of using a public office or other position of trust for personal gain.

Japanese Meaning

短期的な利益を目的とした株式や商品の売買、または金策的な取引を指す。 / 公職や信頼される地位を私的な利益のために利用する行為や慣行を意味する。

What is this buttons?

His jobbing in the local market earned him enough profit to pay the rent.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

彼は地元の市場での利益目的の売買で家賃を払えるほどの利益を得た。

Details

Sense（1）

Buying and selling stocks or goods for profit; mercenary trading.

Sense（2）

The fact or practice of using a public office or other position of trust for personal gain.

It is through the power of Paris, now become the center and focus of jobbing, that the leaders of this faction direct, or rather command the whole legislative and the whole executive government.

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