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4. transaction, deal, dealings, Inf. iron in the fire.
5. drudgery, toil, hack work, grind, daily grind.
6. graft, corruption, jobbery. See jobbery.
-v. 7. buy and sell, wholesale, distribute, dispense, consign, apportion, allocate.
8. contract, job out, subcontract, farm out, commission, consign, sublet, lease, relegate, send out; do odd jobs, hire oneself out, free-lance.
9. swindle, scheme, exploit, manipulate, maneuver, pettifog, machinate, gerrymander, gouge, line one's pockets, feather one's nest, SI. pull wires or strings, SI. porkbarrel.
jobber, n. 1. wholesaler, wholesale merchant, broker, dealer, consignor, dispenser, supplier, middleman; agent, salesman, representative.
2. pieceworker, wageworker, day laborer or worker, laborer; hired hand, hand, help, workman; handyman, jack-of-all-trades, all-around man, man-of-all-work; migrant, Inf. wetback, itinerant, migratory worker; hack, drudge, hireling, freelancer, Inf. gypsy, Inf tramp.
3. grafter, swindler, fraud; manipulator, operator, gerrymanderer, wirepuller, stringpuller, wheeler-dealer; schemer, strategist, intriguer, machinator; sharper, pettifogger, carpetbagger, graft merchant.
jobbery, n. graft, racket, spoils; Inf. pickings, rake-off, cut, kickback; plunder, loot, booty,, swag, boodle, grease, velvet, gravy, honey, payola, hush money, pay-off, shake-down; pettifogging, fraudu-lence, gerrymandering, putting in the fix, pulling wires or strings.
jockey, n. 1. rider, horseback rider, horseman, equestrian, trainer, exercise boy, Inf. jock.
-v. 2. ride, race, run, mount, sit; train, exercise; guide, steer, handle, control.
3. maneuver, manage, negotiate, manipulate; adjust, set right, trim, ease, ease into position; coax, cajole, induce, wheedle, beguile; court, woo, flatter, curry favor, fawn over, dance attendance upon, Inf. soft-soap, ingratiate or insinuate oneself; Inf. butter up, Inf. shine up to, Inf get on the good side of.
4. trick, deceive, cheat, bamboozle, delude, hoodwink, pull the wool over [s.o.'s] eyes, take in, SI. con; fool, dupe, hoax, humbug, Brit. Inf. gammon; outwit, overreach, circumvent, get around, put one over on, take for a ride; victimize, exploit, play on or upon, take advantage of, get the better of, get the upper hand, get the inside track, dice, leave in the dust; do, diddle, fleece, rook, gouge, pluck.
jocose, adj. jesting, joking, teasing, Inf. kidding, Inf. funning; roguish, arch, mischievous; playful, prankish, sportive, clowning; entertaining, diverting, light, Inf. fun, full of fun; witty, quick-witted, nimble-witted, waggish, jocular, droll, facetious, salty; funny, comical, comic, (of verse) doggerel, risible, humorous, amusing, Inf. boffo; laughable, ludicrous, absurd, farcical, ridiculous, silly; hilarious, hysterical, riotous, sidesplitting, SI. a scream, SI. a gas; nonsensical, whimsical.
jocosity, n. 1. playfulness, prankishness, sportiveness, clownishness; jocularity, drollery, facetiousness, wit, humor; humorousness, comicalness, amusingness, drollness, delightfulness; laughableness, ludicrousness, absurdity, farcicality, ridiculousness, silliness, whimsicality; hilarity, riotousness, hysteria.