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broker
[ broh-ker ]
noun
- an agent who buys or sells for a principal on a commission basis without having title to the property.
- a person who functions as an intermediary between two or more parties in negotiating agreements, bargains, or the like.
verb (used with object)
- to act as a broker for:
to broker the sale of a house.
verb (used without object)
- to act as a broker.
broker
/ ˈbrəʊkə /
noun
- an agent who, acting on behalf of a principal, buys or sells goods, securities, etc, in return for a commission
insurance broker
- (formerly) short for stockbroker
- a dealer in second-hand goods
verb
- to act as a broker (in)
broker
- A financial agent or intermediary; a middleman.
Other Words From
- broker·ship noun
- sub·broker noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of broker1
Word History and Origins
Origin of broker1
Example Sentences
The London-based nonprofit Privacy International has challenged the legality of the data broker business under GDPR, targeting Oracle among others.
Google is the largest broker of ad sales on all other sites, serving most buyers and most sellers.
John Casey, then the city’s ballpark administrator who also helped with major real estate deals, said he kicked around potential solutions with Jason Hughes, a commercial real estate broker and unpaid city adviser.
A study by Savills, the commercial property broker, found that traffic last month at high-end shopping malls in three of China’s top five cities had returned to, or exceeded, pre-virus levels.
For these brokers, the big money isn’t in the stock market—it’s in options.
When you are safely out, you give your password to the smuggler who calls it in to the broker to release the funds.
The broker who sold the policy went so far as to say the doctors had been lying to me.
Caro wanted a clean start, a new editor, and enough money to survive on while he finished writing The Power Broker.
“When Robert Moses began building playgrounds in New York City, there were 119,” Caro writes in The Power Broker.
That single chapter, the most visceral and moving part of The Power Broker, took Caro six months to research and write.
A delivery of a policy therefore, to an insurance broker, would be a delivery to his principal.
A bill and note broker who does not disclose the principal's name is liable like other agents as a principal.
Thence, indeed, in the course of a few days went a wealthy broker whose sign was three balls.
They drove on, and reaching Winnipeg next day, went straight to Graham the wheat-broker's offices.
"I'll make it that much, and see the others do their share," said Dane, and then glanced at the broker with a curious smile.
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