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ship-broker

British

noun

a person who acts for a shipowner by getting cargo and passengers for his ships and also handling insurance and other matters

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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 Jones, P.

Father outdoor clerk of some ship-broker in Rotterdam; mother dead.

From An Outcast of the Islands by Conrad, Joseph

The ship-broker finds ships for the merchant, when he wants to send his goods abroad; or goods for captains and masters of vessels to freight their ships with.

From London in 1731 by Gonzales, Don Manoel

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 Reade, Charles

One of his uncles was a ship-broker of good standing, with a large connection among English ships; other relatives of his dealt in ships' stores, owned sail-lofts, sold chains and anchors, were master-stevedores, calkers, shipwrights.

From A Personal Record by Conrad, Joseph

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