stockbroker

American  

[stok-broh-ker] / ˈstɒkˌbroʊ kər /

noun

1. 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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stockbroker British  

/ ˈstɒkˌbrəʊkərɪdʒ, ˈstɒkˌbrəʊkə /

noun

1. Often shortened to: broker.  a person who buys and sells securities on a commission basis for customers

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Other Word Forms

• stock brokerage noun
• stockbrokerage noun
• stockbrokering noun
• stockbroking noun

Etymology

Origin of stockbroker

First recorded in 1700–10; stock + broker

Example Sentences

Soon, they might serve as your stockbroker, too.

From The Wall Street Journal

“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

It’s also linked to the modern evolution of Friday the 13th as an unlucky day, based in part on Thomas Lawson’s 1907 best-seller about a corrupt stockbroker who crashes the market.

From Barron's

Zhengbang Liu was working at an Apple store to make money for college when he struck up a friendship with a frequent customer, a stockbroker who worked across the street.

From The Wall Street Journal

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

Related Words

• backer
• banker
• broker
• capitalist
• entrepreneur
• merchant
• operator
• speculator
• tycoon