"job backwards" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "jobs backwards",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "jobbing backwards",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "jobbed backwards",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "jobbed backwards",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "job backwards (third-person singular simple present jobs backwards, present participle jobbing backwards, simple past and past participle jobbed backwards)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Finance",
          "orig": "en:Finance",
          "parents": [
            "Business",
            "Economics",
            "Society",
            "Social sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Sciences",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1941, The Economist, volume 140, page 46",
          "text": "They maintain that Sir William has \"jobbed backwards\"; that people who invested in the mines were indulging in a speculation, and that because the speculation has failed the whole matter has been considered by Sir William as if it concerned […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1969, Ian Charles Rayner Byatt, Adrian Victor Cohen, An attempt to quantify the economic benefits of scientific research",
          "text": "[…] it would seem necessary to undertake a series of ex post studies, selecting present major science-based industries and jobbing backwards so as to relate their present value to the network of scientific discoveries judged essential to them.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To reassess one's original decisions (e.g. investments) with hindsight, determining how they might have been better chosen."
      ],
      "id": "en-job_backwards-en-verb-z7DhSj-P",
      "links": [
        [
          "finance",
          "finance#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "reassess",
          "reassess"
        ],
        [
          "decision",
          "decision"
        ],
        [
          "investment",
          "investment"
        ],
        [
          "hindsight",
          "hindsight"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, chiefly finance) To reassess one's original decisions (e.g. investments) with hindsight, determining how they might have been better chosen."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "business",
        "finance"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "job backwards"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "jobs backwards",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "jobbing backwards",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "jobbed backwards",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "jobbed backwards",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "job backwards (third-person singular simple present jobs backwards, present participle jobbing backwards, simple past and past participle jobbed backwards)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Finance"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1941, The Economist, volume 140, page 46",
          "text": "They maintain that Sir William has \"jobbed backwards\"; that people who invested in the mines were indulging in a speculation, and that because the speculation has failed the whole matter has been considered by Sir William as if it concerned […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1969, Ian Charles Rayner Byatt, Adrian Victor Cohen, An attempt to quantify the economic benefits of scientific research",
          "text": "[…] it would seem necessary to undertake a series of ex post studies, selecting present major science-based industries and jobbing backwards so as to relate their present value to the network of scientific discoveries judged essential to them.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To reassess one's original decisions (e.g. investments) with hindsight, determining how they might have been better chosen."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "finance",
          "finance#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "reassess",
          "reassess"
        ],
        [
          "decision",
          "decision"
        ],
        [
          "investment",
          "investment"
        ],
        [
          "hindsight",
          "hindsight"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, chiefly finance) To reassess one's original decisions (e.g. investments) with hindsight, determining how they might have been better chosen."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "business",
        "finance"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "job backwards"
}