ˈstock-ˌjobber
a. A member of the Stock Exchange who deals in stocks on his own account; = jobber2 4.
| a 1626 Sir J. Davies in Carte Hist. Eng. (1755) IV. 194/1 He had..played the stock-jobber in buying the debentures, tallies and ticquets,..at a great discompt. a 1692 Shadwell (title) The Volunteers, or the Stock-Jobbers. A Comedy. 1697 Lond. Gaz. No. 3280/2 An Act to Restrain the Number and Ill Practices of Brokers and Stock-Jobbers. 1723 Ibid. No. 6136/4 Thomas Shank,..Broker and Stockjobber. 1750 Johnson Rambler No. 20 ¶5 The son of a wealthy stock-jobber, who spends his morning under his father's eye in Change Alley. 1755 ― Dict., Stockjobber, a low wretch who gets money by buying and selling shares in the funds. 1838 Lytton Alice iii. i, Lord Vargrave..was..suspected of selling his state information to stock-jobbers. 1858 Simmonds Dict. Trade, Stock-jobber, an outsider or intermediate agent between the buyer and seller of public securities, who makes a marginal price at which shares, etc. are to be bought or sold in the Stock-exchange. |
b. U.S. ‘A stockbroker; often used somewhat contemptuously or to suggest unscrupulousness’ (W. 1911).
| 1833 Niles' Reg. XLIV. 570/1 The ‘black-leg’ in the gambling houses..more fairly takes the chances of the play, than the stock-jobber on 'change. 1895 in Funk's Stand. Dict. 1911 H. S. Harrison Queed 107 If a man became the greatest stock-jobber in the world, who would remember him after he was gone. |
Hence ˈstock-ˌjobbery jocular, stock-jobbing.
| 1882 Ogilvie, Stock-jobbery, the practice or business of dealing in stocks or shares: used in a disparaging sense. 1897 Daily News 22 May 5/1 Was the Jameson plan conceived or abetted in the interests of stock-jobbery? |