broker
[broh-ker]
- 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.
- stockbroker.
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- to act as a broker for: to broker the sale of a house.
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- to act as a broker.
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Origin of broker
1350–1400; Middle English broco(u)r < Anglo-French broco(u)r, abrocour middleman, wine merchant; compare Old Provençal abrocador, perhaps based on Spanish alboroque gift or drink concluding a transaction (< Arabic al-burūk the gift, gratuity), with -ador < Latin -ātōr- -ator
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The brief get-together was brokered by French President Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
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June 6, 2014
There are also signs a ceasefire will be brokered in the coming days, probably at the expense of al-Baghdadi.
The engineering school dropout had sold corned beef to Africa and brokered some Brazilian diamonds with mixed success.
Unexpectedly, Obama also brokered a reconciliation between Bibi and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
The ceasefire Egypt brokered with American help will last for a period of time.
broker
- an agent who, acting on behalf of a principal, buys or sells goods, securities, etc, in return for a commissioninsurance broker
- (formerly) short for stockbroker
- a dealer in second-hand goods
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- to act as a broker (in)
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Word Origin
C14: from Anglo-French brocour broacher (of casks, hence, one who sells, agent), from Old Northern French broquier to tap a cask, from broque tap of a cask; see broach 1
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Word Origin and History for brokered
broker
n.
late 14c., from Anglo-French brocour "small trader," from abrokur "retailer of wine, tapster;" perhaps from Portuguese alborcar "barter," but more likely from Old French brocheor, from brochier "to broach, tap, pierce (a keg)," from broche "pointed tool" (see broach (n.)), giving original sense of "wine dealer," hence "retailer, middleman, agent." In Middle English, used contemptuously of peddlers and pimps.
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broker
v.
1630s (implied in brokering), from broker (n.). Related: Brokered.
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Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
broker
A financial agent or intermediary; a middleman.
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