job backwardsとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

job backwards

1. (intransitive, chiefly finance) To reassess one's original decisions (e.g. investments) with hindsight, determining how they might have been better chosen.
   • 1941, The Economist (volume 140, page 46)

     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 […]

   • 1969, Ian Charles Rayner Byatt, ‎Adrian Victor Cohen, An attempt to quantify the economic benefits of scientific research

     […] 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.