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land-jobber
Obs.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a person who buys up large amounts of land usually intending to profit by speculation.
See: land-grabber
Quotations
1863
"One of the most noted land-jobbers in the country--a man who buys wild lands at three shillings an acre, to sell them again at tenor fifteen, if he can. . . ."