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

From An Outcast of the Islands by Conrad, Joseph

Messengers were sent down to Plymouth, his friends having later acquired some clue to his movements, and an influential ship-broker in the town was employed to intercept his flight should he attempt to sail thence.

From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 2 by Whymper, Frederick

The ship-broker started a little as he glanced at the card and realized Scarterfield's calling.

From Ravensdene Court by Fletcher, J. S. (Joseph Smith)

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 Nordau, Max Simon

Bertrand, greatly surprised, followed the ship-broker to a lane close by—a dark, solitary locality, which suggested an unpleasant misgiving, very pleasantly relieved by Derville's first words.

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 459 Volume 18, New Series, October 16, 1852 by Chambers, Robert

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