stockbroker

[ stok-broh-ker ]

/ ˈstɒkˌbroʊ kər /

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noun

a broker, especially one employed by a member firm of a stock exchange, who buys and sells stocks and other securities for customers.

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Also called broker.

Origin of stockbroker

First recorded in 1700–10; stock + broker

OTHER WORDS FROM stockbroker

stock·brok·er·age, stock brokerage

[stok-broh-ker-ij], /ˈstɒkˌbroʊ kər ɪdʒ/, nounstockbroking, stock·brok·er·ing, noun

Words nearby stockbroker

stock and station agent, stock book, stock boy, stockbreeder, stockbreeding, stockbroker, stockbroker belt, stock car, stock certificate, stock character, stock clerk

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How to use stockbroker in a sentence

Similarly, those returns are why Ilves likens travel advisers to stockbrokers.
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Mark Kimsey, a Great Falls stockbroker, boosted Snyder’s bottom line two days before the deadline with a $1 million donation.
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When completed, local investors will be able to buy and sell stocks across those three countries without the currently existing hurdles, such as needing different stockbrokers in each country.
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As Jordan Belfort, a charismatic monster of a stockbroker, DiCaprio is a feral beast; the id incarnate.
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Former stockbroker Jordan Belfort once had sex on $3 million in cash.
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Near the beginning of Wolf, Belfort arrives on Wall Street for his first day of work as an entry-level stockbroker.
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Pippa Middleton was snapped snogging her new boyfriend stockbroker Nico Jackson after playing a game of tennis in London.
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Nico is a stockbroker at Deutsche Bank, whose family run a ski shop in England.
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The stockbroker had too short a go—he was carried off in his flower.
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He wouldn't be a theatrical manager—his attire was too formal; or a stockbroker—his attire was not formal enough.
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Then there's that bald man in the white robe--his name's Giroflet--a retired stockbroker.
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This Brown was the son of a Scotch stockbroker living in Lambeth.
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Joseph knew no stockbroker—had only heard of them by rumour.
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British Dictionary definitions for stockbroker

stockbroker

/ (ˈstɒkˌbrəʊkə) /

noun

a person who buys and sells securities on a commission basis for customersOften shortened to: broker

Derived forms of stockbroker

stockbrokerage (ˈstɒkˌbrəʊkərɪdʒ) or stockbroking, noun

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