DCHP-3

land-jobber

Obs.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n.

a person who buys up large amounts of land usually intending to profit by speculation.

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. . . ."