land-jobbing

English

Noun

land-jobbing (uncountable)

  1. The buying and selling of land on speculation.
    • 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, I.8:
      He […] knows nothing but the value of estates, and how to improve them, and what belongs to land-jobbing and husbandry.
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