Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that acts as an agent for others, as in negotiating contracts, purchases, or sales in return for a fee or commission.
- noun A stockbroker.
- noun A power broker.
- transitive verb To arrange or manage as a broker.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who has ‘gone broke’; a ‘dead broke,’ ruined, or bankrupt man.
- noun A middleman or agent who, for a commission or rate per cent. on the value of the transaction, negotiates for others the purchase or sale of stocks, bonds, commodities, or property of any kind, or who attends to the doing of something for another.
- noun One who lends money on pledges, or lets out articles for hire; a pawnbroker, or a lender of goods.
- noun A pimp or procurer; a pander.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who transacts business for another; an agent.
- noun (Law) An agent employed to effect bargains and contracts, as a middleman or negotiator, between other persons, for a compensation commonly called
brokerage . He takes no possession, as broker, of the subject matter of the negotiation. He generally contracts in the names of those who employ him, and not in his own. - noun A dealer in money, notes, bills of exchange, etc.
- noun engraving A dealer in secondhand goods.
- noun obsolete A pimp or procurer.
- noun one who buys and sells notes and bills of exchange.
- noun [U.S.] an operator in stocks (not a member of the Stock Exchange) who executes orders by running from office to office, or by transactions on the street.
- noun one who buys and sells uncurrent money, and deals in exchanges relating to money.
- noun one who is agent in procuring insurance on vessels, or against fire.
- noun See
Pawnbroker . - noun one who buys and sells lands, and negotiates loans, etc., upon mortgage.
- noun one who acts as agent in buying and selling ships, procuring freight, etc.
- noun See
Stockbroker .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
comparative form ofbroke : morebroke - noun A
mediator between abuyer andseller . - noun computing An agent involved in the exchange of messages or transactions.
- verb To act as a broker; to
mediate in asale ortransaction .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb act as a broker
- noun a businessman who buys or sells for another in exchange for a commission
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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_ -- A broker who signs a contract note _as broker_ on behalf of a principal, whether named or not, is not personally liable on the contract to the third party.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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I would never use the term broker, nor wholesaler, when speaking to a seller.
BiggerPockets Forums 2009
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The term broker is also used to refer to a company that specializes in brokerage services.
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I would never use the term broker, nor wholesaler, when speaking to a seller.
BiggerPockets Forums 2009
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However, in general, a broker is an intermediary between those who produce a product or service and those who might want to buy that product or service.
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There's a thing that we call a broker, which is you know going for a month and making zero.
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The payments usually get bigger if the broker is successful at the new firm, but if a broker leaves early, the securities firm typically wants some money back.
Signing Bonuses Haunt Wall Street Aaron Lucchetti 2010
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The companies offered to me this year (remember that your broker is not your insurer) are ANA, ACE, and HDI.
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Another advantage: There are fewer conflicts of interest in these advisory relationships than when a broker is primarily paid through upfront commissions on fund sales.
A Helping Hand for Your Portfolio Jaime Levy Pessin 2010
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Asking the US to be an "honest" broker is such a situation will be a repetition of the historical brokering by the US with the Native Americans.
Levy vs. Frum on the US as an ‘Honest Broker’ « Antiwar.com Blog 2009
fbharjo commented on the word broker
ceremonial gift at the end of a business deal : al b-oro-que (Spanish)
January 14, 2008
qroqqa commented on the word broker
Related etymologically to 'broach' (q.v. for more detail), 'brooch', and 'broccoli'.
March 6, 2009