jobbing

Etymology

verb

1. present participle and gerund of job

noun

1. Buying and selling stocks or goods for profit; mercenary trading.
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. 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, Oxford, published 2009, page 197
3. Work carried out by the job; piecework, odd-job work.
   We have not lost sight of the various proceedings, appointments, jobbings, &c, at University College. 1849, The Lancet London

adj

1. That does odd jobs; that works on occasional jobs as available.
   The jobbing foundryman has very little control over the nature of the jobs which come his way.
   His performance in Dr No in 1962 set the jobbing actor and former milkman on a path that would lead to Hollywood stardom and all its trappings. November 1 2020, Alan Young, “Sean Connery obituary: From delivering milk in Fountainbridge to the definitive James Bond”, in The Scotsman