stockbroker
a broker, especially one employed by a member firm of a stock exchange, who buys and sells stocks and other securities for customers.
Origin of stockbroker
1Other words from stockbroker
- stock·brok·er·age, stock brok·er·age [stok-broh-ker-ij], /ˈstɒkˌbroʊ kər ɪdʒ/, noun
- stock·brok·ing, stock·brok·er·ing, noun
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How to use stockbroker in a sentence
Besides these, the Year-Book makes mention of stockbroking and conveyancing as professions that women are beginning to adopt.
Reviews | Oscar WildeHis dilemma is a very painful one for a man so sensitive and at the same time so enamoured of stockbroking.
And then, after all, there were also still the ladies; the ladies of stockbroking circles were perpetually up and down.
In the Cage | Henry JamesMax Elliot was the very successful senior partner of an old-established stockbroking firm in the City.
The Way of Ambition | Robert HichensBut his religious opinions and his stockbroking had got strangely mixed up at the wash somehow.
Miss Cayley's Adventures | Grant Allen
British Dictionary definitions for stockbroker
/ (ˈstɒkˌbrəʊkə) /
a person who buys and sells securities on a commission basis for customers: Often shortened to: broker
Derived forms of stockbroker
- stockbrokerage (ˈstɒkˌbrəʊkərɪdʒ) or stockbroking, noun
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