stockbroker
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Origin of stockbroker
Explanation
A stockbroker is someone who buys, sells, and trades stocks — or shares in companies — for a living. Most stockbrokers work for brokerage firms. People who have money to invest often buy stocks, which is like buying a small portion of a company, and then sell them when they've increased in value. Someone whose job involves buying and selling stocks for clients is a stockbroker. It's more common these days to use the terms "broker" or "financial adviser," but stockbroker has been around since the 1700's, from the sense of a broker as "someone who buys and sells."
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His father, a stockbroker, and his mother, a salesclerk, divorced when Greenspan was 3.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2026
Soon, they might serve as your stockbroker, too.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026
It’s also linked to the modern evolution of Friday the 13th as an unlucky day, based in part on Thomas Lawson’s 1907 best-seller about a corrupt stockbroker who crashes the market.
From Barron's ● Mar. 13, 2026
"Gold can't be printed by central banks, and it can't be conjured out of thin air," says Russ Mould, investment director at stockbroker AJ Bell.
From BBC ● May 12, 2025
Milgram found that most of the letters reached the stockbroker in five or six steps.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
Atkins and SEC’s two other commissioners now argue that stockbrokers already have a strict legal duty to execute trades with the most favorable terms for their clients, making the trade-through rule superfluous.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
“The Forsytes” is inspired by Galsworthy’s family of extremely wealthy stockbrokers in late-Victorian London, an age in which nobility’s influence and social dominance receded with the rise of new money.
From Salon ● Mar. 28, 2026
It was in that same spirit that 24 stockbrokers got together on Wall Street in 1792 to sign the Buttonwood Agreement External link, starting what would become the New York Stock Exchange.
From Barron's ● Jan. 13, 2026
“The cracks appearing in luxury demand are very telling,” said Sophie Lund-Yates, an analyst at stockbrokers Hargreaves Lansdown.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 12, 2024
With 2,300 journalists around the world, in 197 bureaus, serving a market including investment bankers, derivatives traders, stockbrokers, newspapers, radio, television, and Internet outlets, Reuters has always had a very complex audience to satisfy.
From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman
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