jobbed
- 1Simple past tense and past participle of job.
The contractor jobbed out the electrical wiring to a specialist firm.
For years she jobbed in the markets, trading goods between wholesalers.
Note
The doubled b is the usual spelling for a short verb ending in one consonant after one vowel. Which constructions the form fits depends on the meaning. The transitive uses, speculating in securities or parceling a project among contractors, can be passive: the contract was jobbed to three firms. The intransitive ones, from doing odd work to the slang sense of meekly taking a loss, follow only have: he has jobbed for years.
jobbed is a form of job
job, verb: To subcontract a project or delivery by dividing it into small portions spread across several contractors. Full entry
- Spelling
- job → jobbed: double the b, add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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