DCHP-1 Online
land-jobber Obs. 
n. a person who buys up large amounts of land usually intending to profit by speculation.
See also: land-grabber
- 1863 "One of the most noted land-jobbers in the country--a man who buys wild lands at three shillings an acre, to sell them again at tenor fifteen, if he can. . . ."
- 1863 "One of the most noted land-jobbers in the country--a man who buys wild lands at three shillings an acre, to sell them again at tenor fifteen, if he can. . . ."