stockjobber
(noun) one who deals only with brokers or other jobbers
Source: WordNet® 3.1
stockjobber (plural stockjobbers)
(chiefly British, trading) A stock-exchange operator who deals only with brokers.
(British, pejorative, trading) An unscrupulous stockbroker.
Source: Wiktionary
Stock"job`ber, n. Etym: [Stock + job.]
Definition: 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
2 April 2025
(adjective) secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed; “covert actions by the CIA”; “covert funding for the rebels”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
