Word Meanings - STOCKJOBBING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act or art of dealing in stocks; the business of a stockjobber.

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• BUSINESS
  The position, distribution, and order of persons and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by the stage manager in rehearsal. 7. Care; anxiety; diligence. Chaucer. To do one's business, to ruin one. Wycherley. -- To make one's
• DEALBATION
  Act of bleaching; a whitening.
• DEALFISH
  A long, thin fish of the arctic seas .
• DEAL
  The division of a piece of timber made by sawing; a board or plank; particularly, a board or plank of fir or pine above seven inches in width, and exceeding six feet in length. If narrower than this, it is called a batten; if shorter, a deal end.
• STOCKJOBBER
  One who speculates in stocks for gain; one whose occupation is to buy and sell stocks. In England a jobber acts as an intermediary between brokers.
• BUSINESSLIKE
  In the manner of one transacting business wisely and by right methods.
• DEALBATE
  To whiten. Cockeram.
• DEALTH
  Share dealt.
• DEALING
  The act of one who deals; distribution of anything, as of cards to the players; method of business; traffic; intercourse; transaction; as, to have dealings with a person. Double dealing, insincere, treacherous dealing; duplicity. -- Plain dealing,
• DEALER
  1. One who deals; one who has to do, or has concern, with others; esp., a trader, a trafficker, a shopkeeper, a broker, or a merchant; as, a dealer in dry goods; a dealer in stocks; a retail dealer. 2. One who distributes cards to the players.
• THYROIDEAL
  Thyroid.
• ENTERDEAL
  Mutual dealings; intercourse. The enterdeal of princes strange. Spenser.
• IDEALISTIC
  Of or pertaining to idealists or their theories.
• DOUBLE DEALER
  One who practices double dealing; a deceitful, trickish person. L'Estrange.
• WATER ORDEAL
  See 1
• IDEALOGUE
  One given to fanciful ideas or theories; a theorist; a spectator. Mrs. Browning.
• IDEALISM
  The system or theory that denies the existence of material bodies, and teaches that we have no rational grounds to believe in the reality of anything but ideas and their relations. (more info) 1. The quality or state of being ideal. 2. Conception
• SOMEDEAL
  Thou lackest somedeal their delight. Spenser.
• HALFENDEAL
  Half; by the part. Chaucer. -- n.
• DOUBLE DEALING
  False or deceitful dealing. See Double dealing, under Dealing. Shak.
• IDEALOGIC
  Of or pertaining to an idealogue, or to idealization.
• OVERDEAL
  The excess. The overdeal in the price will be double. Holland.
• HYOIDEAL; HYOIDEAN
  See A