different between jobbing vs gobbing

English

jobbing

jobbing (plural jobbings)

Buying and selling stocks or goods for profit; mercenary trading. [from 17th c.]
The fact or practice of using a public office or other position of trust for personal gain. [from 17th c.]
- 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, Oxford 2009, p. 197:
  It is through the power of Paris, now become the center and focus of jobbing, that the leaders of this faction direct, or rather command the whole legislative and the whole executive government.
Work carried out by the job; piecework, odd-job work. [from 18th c.]
- 1849, The Lancet London
  We have not lost sight of the various proceedings, appointments, jobbings, &c, at University College.

jobbing (comparative more jobbing, superlative most jobbing)

gobbing

gobbing (plural gobbings)

(mining) The refuse thrown back into the excavation after removing the coal; gob stuff.
(Can we find and add a quotation of Brande & C to this entry?)
The process of packing with waste rock; stowing.

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