customer's man

American  

noun

Stock Exchange.

1. registered representative.

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Etymology

Origin of customer's man

An Americanism dating back to 1930–35

Example Sentences

Yes, before I became a financial reporter, I was what they used to call a customer’s man.

From New York Times • Jan. 25, 2017

I spent only two years as a customer’s man, but in that short span I learned an immense amount about how the financial world works and doesn’t.

From New York Times • Jan. 25, 2017

As a customer's man for the brokerage firm of Draper Dobie & Co.

From Time Magazine Archive

Broker Marriott has in his office a customer's man named Edward Alfred Waterton, who has as a customer one Harold Eves, solicitor and secretary to Alfred Bates.

From Time Magazine Archive