jobbers
Stock market traders
Jobbers is the plural of jobber, a word with several meanings depending on context.
In finance, particularly British usage, jobbers were dealers who traded securities on their own account rather than for clients.
In wholesale commerce, a jobber buys goods from manufacturers and sells to retailers—a middleman.
In professional wrestling, jobbers are wrestlers whose role is to lose to featured performers, making the stars look good: He spent years as a jobber before getting his big push.
Entities that supply retailers
- bulkMain mass or size
- warehouseBulk goods storage building
- inventoryCatalog of held assets
- supply chainProduct delivery infrastructure
B2B · logistics · volume discount · reseller · pallets · overstock · liquidation · procurement
Those who trade equities
- speculationUnproven theorizing or risky investment
- securitiesTradeable financial assets
- equitiesOwnership stakes in corporations
- day tradingSame-session securities speculation
market maker · arbitrage · shares · ticker · Wall Street · floor traders · exchange · bull market
Irregular, non-permanent employment
- handymenGeneral household repair workers
- freelancersSelf-employed contract workers
- gig workersNon-permanent hired labor
- day laborersWorkers hired daily
hired hands · temporary workers · subcontractors · tradesmen · manual labor · hourly workers · craftsmen · repair workers
distributors
Entities that supply retailers
supply chain · B2B · logistics · volume discount · reseller · pallets · overstock · liquidation · procurement · middlemen
stockbrokers
Those who trade equities
- speculationUnproven theorizing or risky investment
- securitiesTradeable financial assets
- equitiesOwnership stakes in corporations
day trading · market maker · arbitrage · shares · ticker · Wall Street · floor traders · exchange · bull market · bear market
casual labor
Irregular, non-permanent employment
- handymenGeneral household repair workers
- freelancersSelf-employed contract workers
- gig workersNon-permanent hired labor
day laborers · hired hands · temporary workers · subcontractors · tradesmen · manual labor · hourly workers · craftsmen · repair workers
- wholesalewholesale, wholesaler, distributor, bulk buying, warehouse stores
- tradetrade balance, free trade, trade barriers, customs, trade deficit
- underlingsunderling, underlings, subordinate, minions, minion
- intermediariesmiddleman, middlemen, go-between, go-betweens, broker
- Taskersfreelancers, gig workers, contractors, temps, helpers
jobbersretailers
Businesses selling to public
retail clerks · shopkeepers · manufacturers · producers · end consumers
jobbersbrokers
Transaction intermediaries
principals · agents · stockbrokers · retail investors · institutional investors