stockbroker

[ stok-broh-ker ]
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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.

Origin of stockbroker

1
First recorded in 1700–10; stock + broker

Other 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 Wilde
  • His 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 James
  • Max Elliot was the very successful senior partner of an old-established stockbroking firm in the City.

    The Way of Ambition | Robert Hichens
  • But his religious opinions and his stockbroking had got strangely mixed up at the wash somehow.

British Dictionary definitions for stockbroker

stockbroker

/ (ˈstɒkˌbrəʊkə) /


noun
  1. 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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