stock-jobber

[Victor Steinbok]

I should have mentioned that Webster 1828 has an even narrower
definition for "stock-jobbing"

> The act of art of dealing in the public funds.

It leaves out all the other definitions used in other dictionaries. So
these definitely come as a pair (actually a triple, since
"stock-jobbing" can be both a noun and an adjective).

     VS-)


On 2/23/2011 3:17 AM, Victor Steinbok wrote:
> I have no beef with this--in fact, I'm aware of it. My question
> concerned only the specific contemporaneous definition (Webster 1828)
> that applied to several cites on the subject of Bank of US scandal in
> 1834. This particular definition is not found among the ones in the
> OED or in any of the other contemporary dictionaries. OneLook finds it
> under Webster 1828 only. But, yes, the most common definitions include
> the pejorative reference to a stockbroker or the singularly British
> one "One who deals only with brokers or other jobbers." What I want to
> know is if it's worth resurrecting the apparently now-lost definition
> of a public-fund speculator, particularly with the OED being a
> "historical dictionary".
>
>     VS-)

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