stockjobbing
English edit
Etymology edit
From stockjobber.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
stockjobbing (usually uncountable, plural stockjobbings)
- (trading, dated) Making markets in equity securities; dealing in stocks and shares.
- 1834, David Crockett, A Narrative of the Life of, Nebraska, published 1987, page 20:
- poor Kendall had a hard time of it to stop them at last, as Amos will to stop the mouths of the people about his stockjobbing.