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jobbing house; job lots; job printer. Jobbing house, referring to a firm buying goods to sell in bulk to retailers, came into the language about 1870. Job lots refers to larger, often assorted, quantities of goods sold or handled as a single transaction. Job Lots is now often used as a name for stores that sell a miscella- neous quantity of goods, a quantity of odds and ends. Job print- er is a printer who does varied work. |