ship-broker
Britishnoun
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"Do you wish to be taken on board his craft?" asked a kind of ship-broker, hearing that Uros was asking about the Greek captain.
From The Pobratim A Slav Novel by P. Jones
A brass plate said, "R. Bartley, ship-broker and commission agent"; but the man was evidently a ship-owner and a carrier besides; so this miscellaneous shop roused hopes in our versatile hero.
From A Perilous Secret by Charles Reade
Her papers, bills of lading, charter-party, assurance policy, were all in order, and two days before the ship-broker had sent on the last signatures.
From Godfrey Morgan A Californian Mystery by Jules Verne
She knew perfectly well that the highest professorship could only earn in a year what an ordinary ship-broker made in a month.
From The Malady of the Century by Max Simon Nordau
Father outdoor clerk of some ship-broker in Rotterdam; mother dead.
From An Outcast of the Islands by Joseph Conrad
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