jobber

1. 1.

   someone who buys large quantities of goods and resells to merchants rather than to the ultimate customers

   Synonymsmiddlemanwholesaler

   Broaderdistributor

   Narrowermeat packer

Other forms of jobber

plural

jobbers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about jobber

What does jobber mean?

jobber means "someone who buys large quantities of goods and resells to merchants rather than to the ultimate customers".

How many syllables are in jobber?

jobber has 2 syllables: job-ber. The stress falls on "job". In IPA it is /ˈdʒɑbɚ/.

What is another word for jobber?

Close synonyms include middleman, wholesaler. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is jobber a common word?

jobber is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.