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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Born on March 6, 1926, Greenspan grew up an only child raised mostly by his mother after she separated from his stockbroker father.
From Barron's ● Jun. 22, 2026
His father, a stockbroker, and his mother, a salesclerk, divorced when Greenspan was 3.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2026
As a senior there, she accepted a marriage proposal from a stockbroker.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025
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
Currently, the Department was being sued by a stockbroker who had been pulled over and then chewed out by a correction officer for speeding, Testo told us, sounding tired.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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
Sophie Lund-Yates, lead equity analyst at stockbrokers Hargreaves Lansdown, said Diageo has impenetrable brand power but that Friday’s warning may stoke concerns that a “change in appetites could translate to other, larger markets.”
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 10, 2023
Gau has insurance specialists to handle insurance needs and stockbrokers to handle investments and retirement specialists for older clients.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
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