jobber

noun9

1. •
   An actor temporarily employed for a specific role, often in a touring company.

   • Jobbers are used as needed. — 1986
2. •
   An intermediary who buys and sells merchandise.

   • We will say "I would rather be an expressman hauling tobacco, cigarettes, et cetera, than be a jobber of such commodities," especially in the city of Boston at the present writing. — 1916
3. •
   (US) A type of intermediary in the apparel industry, as well as others, who buys excess merchandise from brand owners and manufacturers, and sells to retailers at prices that are 20-70% below wholesale.
4. •
   (UK) A market maker on the stock exchange; a stockjobber.
5. •
   (slang) A performer whose primary role is to lose to established talent.

   • My argument has ALWAYS been that 99.9% of all wrestlers are jobbers (and I'm 100% correct). — 1998
6. •
   (slang) A thing (often used in a vague way to refer to something the name of which one cannot recall).
7. •
   A job press or platen press.
8. •
   (UK, no longer used) A promoter or broker of stocks for investment.

   • An act to restrain the number and ill practice of brokers and stock jobbers: 8 & 9 Wm. 3, ch. 32 (1697) [legislation of English parliament]
9. •
   (no longer used) One who works by the job (i.e. paid per individual piece of work) and/or recruits other people for such work.

   • In the Mills there existed a usage under which a worker was first appointed as a Cleaner then an Oiler and thereafter promoted as a Jobber. — 1976