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Jobbery

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. Corruption among public officials.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The improper or corrupt act or conduct of public or official business for the sake of private gain.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The act or practice of jobbing.

n. Underhand management; official corruption.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The act or practice of jobbing; unfair and underhand means used to procure some private end; specifically, the act of perverting public service to private gain.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. corruptness among public officials

Word Usage

"Thinks I to myself, this is what Mr. Hume would have, in the Commons House, called jobbery, and a poor kind of job it turned out; for, on inspecting the lime juice at Port Royal, some of it was condemned as unfit for use."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

corruption corruptness

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