discount broker

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noun

an agent who discounts commercial paper.

a stockbroker who charges discount commission fees.

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Origin of discount broker

First recorded in 1860–65

discount brokerage, noun

Target was established in 1962 by the Dayton brothers as a discount offshoot of their eponymous Twin Cities department store.
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When you are safely out, you give your password to the smuggler who calls it in to the broker to release the funds.
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The broker who sold the policy went so far as to say the doctors had been lying to me.
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So we would not discount that there is a future in the Alicia-Finn relationship.
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Caro wanted a clean start, a new editor, and enough money to survive on while he finished writing The Power Broker.
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Germany invests money abroad, but she seems to borrow as much, and more, in the discount markets of London and Paris.
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A delivery of a policy therefore, to an insurance broker, would be a delivery to his principal.
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A bill and note broker who does not disclose the principal's name is liable like other agents as a principal.
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Thence, indeed, in the course of a few days went a wealthy broker whose sign was three balls.
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They drove on, and reaching Winnipeg next day, went straight to Graham the wheat-broker's offices.
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