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land-jobbing
Obs.
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n.
the activity of a land-grabber.
See: land-grabbing
Quotations
1841
The public lands [are] frittered away by thousands to partizans and parasites;--three millions of acres sold to a company of land-jobbing speculators, residing in London, for forty-three cents per acre, and resold by their agents, to the poor emigrant, at five, ten and twenty five dollars per acre.