stockbroker
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stockbrokers
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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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For Dell, the concept took him back to his childhood in 1970s Houston, where his mother was a stockbroker and where he received a passbook savings account at age 8.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026
Born in Yakima, Wash., MacLachlan grew up the oldest of three boys; his parents were solidly middle-class, with his father working as a lawyer, and then stockbroker.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 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
Powell grew up in Didsbury, Manchester, an area which has been variously dubbed the "stockbroker" or "muesli" belt following a few years of gentrification.
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2025
Paul Gauguin started painting when he was a stockbroker in Paris.
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
“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
Since that document was signed on May 17, 1792, by 24 stockbrokers who often conducted business under a buttonwood tree outside 68 Wall St., the financial markets have eagerly embraced new technologies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2025
“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
Spends most of her time at the stockbrokers.
From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin
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