A person who does odd jobs or small pieces of work; a person hired to do a particular job or employed by the job. Also: a hack; a journeyman, a dabbler.
| Example | Meaning |
Interviewer: Then where did you go? Speaker: Well I went to other camps then after I knew how to work, you might say, real hard. And I had no problem at all. I jobbed on my own, I took my own horses and I- I contracted for other jobbers and- for a couple of years, and then I got a chance to go in on my own. And I worked for myself and I had an easy life then. |
A person who does odd jobs or small pieces of work; a person hired to do a particular job or employed by the job. Also: a hack; a journeyman, a dabbler. |