Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The business of a broker.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete The business of a broker.

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  • noun obsolete The business of a broker.

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Examples

  • The conflicting interests of these touting gentlemen being of a nature to irritate their feelings, personal collisions took place; and the Commons was even scandalized by our principal inveigler (who had formerly been in the wine trade, and afterwards in the sworn brokery line) walking about for some days with a black eye.

    David Copperfield Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1917

  • The order of gentlemanly parleying and brokery has, therefore, with many apprehensions of calamity, been reluctantly and tardily giving ground before something that is of a visibly underbred order.

    An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation Thorstein Veblen 1893

  • The conflicting interests of these touting gentlemen being of a nature to irritate their feelings, personal collisions took place; and the Commons was even scandalized by our principal inveigler (who had formerly been in the wine trade, and afterwards in the sworn brokery line) walking about for some days with a black eye.

    David Copperfield 1850

  • The conflicting interests of these touting gentlemen being of a nature to irritate their feelings, personal collisions took place; and the Commons was even scandalized by our principal inveigler (who had formerly been in the wine trade, and afterwards in the sworn brokery line) walking about for some days with a black eye.

    David Copperfield Charles Dickens 1841

  • (who had formerly been in the wine trade, and afterwards in the sworn brokery line) walking about for some days with a black eye.

    David Copperfield 2007

  • "So that now hee hath left brokery, and is become a draper.

    Notes and Queries, Number 55, November 16, 1850 Various

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