brokage
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of brokage
1350–1400; Middle English < Anglo-French brocage; broker, -age
Example Sentences
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"Bids are starting to emerge on the downside and I wouldn't be surprised if the dollar were to make another try for the upside," said a trade for a Japanese brokage in Tokyo.
From Reuters
This is brave judicial brokage.
From Project Gutenberg
Remember, sirrah, the dinners and suppers, fat venison and good words, I was fain to give you, christening your children still by the way of brokage.
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They could neither possess property, nor engage in manufactures, nor cultivate the soil: they lived by botching and brokage.
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Consider what I told you, you are young, unapt for worldly business: Is it fit one of such tenderness, so delicate, so contrarie to things of care, should stir and break her better meditations, in the bare brokage of a brace of Angels? or a new Kirtel, though it be Satten? eat by the hope of surfeits, and lie down only in expectation of a morrow, that may undo some easie hearted fool, or reach a widows curses?
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