noun

• The practice of using a public office or position of trust for one's own gain or advantage.

  ‘independent scrutiny will serve as a deterrent against jobbery’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Could there be a more fitting end to the Italian presidency than this bold example of jobbery?’
  • ‘I say and protest with one voice against our further soiling our souls and hands in this infamous jobbery.’
  • ‘In the first place, war and expansion will favor jobbery, both in the dependencies and at home.’
  • ‘The people were with him, disgusted with the jobbery and corruption that had brought Pakistan low.’

  Synonyms

  dishonesty, dishonest dealings, unscrupulousness, deceit, deception, duplicity, double-dealing, fraud, fraudulence, misconduct, lawbreaking, crime, criminality, delinquency, wrongdoing, villainy