JOBBER Synonyms: 85 Similar and Opposite Words

jobber

noun

Definition of jobber

as in wholesaler

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as in laborer

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Recent Examples of jobber The installers were jobbers who worked for one of the big-box retailers. — Tim Carter, Hartford Courant, 26 July 2025 Now the last-place Sox are the beleaguered jobbers taking a beating at their home park. — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Aug. 2023 There’s real love out there for his performance, and his journey from child star to behind-the-scenes jobber to indie heartthrob is the type of narrative that voters can get behind. — Vulture, 10 Jan. 2023 Between his backstage segments, and being protected in defeat, Leon Ruff is quietly going from a glorified jobber to a legitimate midcarder. — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 12 May 2021 Gosewich then left the business before its expansion to join Sherman’s Records chain and rack-jobber covering eastern Canada. — Karen Bliss, Billboard, 22 Oct. 2019 The push came from independent distributors, known as rack jobbers, that specialized in foods then considered outside the American mainstream — Chinese, Jewish, Italian or of another origin — and were searching for places to sell them. — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 30 Sep. 2019 For third-generation jobber Rick Green, who delivers food to about 50 restaurants in Indiana and Michigan, daily runs have become more complicated as Fulton Market’s longtime inhabitants have scattered. — Ryan Ori, chicagotribune.com, 13 July 2018 The City had its freewheeling parts—such as the euro markets—but the stock market was carved up by British brokers and jobbers, with Hogwartian names such as Ackroyd & Smithers. — Bloomberg.com, 19 Apr. 2018

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Noun

Cash payments and explosives After the Machados and Matsumura inherited the property, Chee began expanding his business, aiming to become a major wholesaler and importer of fireworks, prosecutors and others have said.

— Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 25 June 2026
Prosecutors say Hammond, who was a pharmacist at Central Pharmacy in Lansing from 2020 to 2024, dispensed and billed a substantial number of female condoms that the pharmacy never received from a wholesaler.

— Joseph Buczek, CBS News, 24 June 2026

Definition of wholesaler

Noun

In the shrimp ponds, these landless laborers earn only a few dollars a day, with no contracts or protections.

— Zakir Hossain Chowdhury, The Dial, 7 July 2026
Duties while at the firehouse included speaking with laborers and subcontractors, ordering supplies and discussions with other Good Neighbor Investors members, Mora recalled.

— Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 7 July 2026

Definition of laborer

Noun

The distributor, which is led by co-presidents Jeff Sackman and Berry Meyerowitz, already holds North American rights and released the action thriller there on June 19.

— Leo Barraclough, Variety, 30 June 2026
The indie distributor earlier picked up the North American rights to the action thriller and released the pic domestically from June 19.

— Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 30 June 2026

Definition of distributor

Noun

Customers can also get the collection in a Krispy Kreme 6-pack box at select retailers.

— Amaris Encinas, USA Today, 3 July 2026
The CalFresh Fruit and Vegetable EBT program, which began in 2023, allows recipients to earn a $1 rebate on their EBT card for every $1 of CalFresh benefits spent on any fresh fruits and vegetables at a participating retailer.

— Lyanne Wang, CBS News, 2 July 2026

Definition of retailer

Noun

Although free labor can help a candidate win, volunteers are also seen as a source of risk, best restricted to such drudge work as phone banking or door knocking.

— Charles Duhigg, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
Workers may be hoping that AI can finally take over their drudge work in the new year—ease their loads and shorten the workweek, or at least make more space for life outside the office.

— Preston Fore, Fortune, 23 Dec. 2025

Definition of drudge

Noun

North America is strengthening its role as an oil and gas exporter while also expanding renewables.

— Robert Rapier, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
Saudi Arabia, the world’s biggest oil exporter, has joined a rush to move cargoes after Middle East producers ramped ⁠up oil and gas output and exports ahead of an interim ⁠deal to halt the war between the United States and Iran.

— CNN Money, CNN Money, 28 June 2026

Definition of exporter

Noun

Bollo, the son of a domestic worker and a line cook, said he’s applied to work as a teaching assistant and graduate researcher, which would waive the cost of his tuition.

— Andrew Khouri, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2026
How — and to what extent — AI might reshape her profession remains to be seen, but jobs for administrative assistants and secretaries have been dwindling for decades.

— Claire Savage, Fortune, 5 July 2026

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