stockbroker
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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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His father, a stockbroker, and his mother, a salesclerk, divorced when Greenspan was 3.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 22, 2026
Bitcoin’s shaky performance as of late has been fuel for skeptics like stockbroker Peter Schiff, a longtime critic of the cryptocurrency.
From Barron's • Nov. 17, 2025
As a senior there, she accepted a marriage proposal from a stockbroker.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 30, 2025
"Gold can't be printed by central banks, and it can't be conjured out of thin air," says Russ Mould, investment director at stockbroker AJ Bell.
From BBC • May 12, 2025
And the next minute I’m a financial prodigy with my own business and a bunch of people working for me and a stockbroker and a prizefighter of my very own.
From "Lawn Boy Returns" by Gary Paulsen
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