Broker

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  • noun. One that acts as an agent for others, as in negotiating contracts, purchases, or sales in return for a fee or commission.
  • noun. A stockbroker.
  • noun. A power broker.
  • transitive verb. To arrange or manage as a broker.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A middleman or agent who, for a commission or rate per cent. on the value of the transaction, negotiates for others the purchase or sale of stocks, bonds, commodities, or property of any kind, or who attends to the doing of something for another.
  • noun. One who lends money on pledges, or lets out articles for hire; a pawnbroker, or a lender of goods.
  • noun. A pimp or procurer; a pander.
  • noun. One who has ‘gone broke’; a ‘dead broke,’ ruined, or bankrupt man.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. One who transacts business for another; an agent.
  • noun. An agent employed to effect bargains and contracts, as a middleman or negotiator, between other persons, for a compensation commonly called brokerage. He takes no possession, as broker, of the subject matter of the negotiation. He generally contracts in the names of those who employ him, and not in his own.
  • noun. A dealer in money, notes, bills of exchange, etc.
  • noun. A dealer in secondhand goods.
  • noun. A pimp or procurer.
  • noun. one who buys and sells notes and bills of exchange.
  • noun. an operator in stocks (not a member of the Stock Exchange) who executes orders by running from office to office, or by transactions on the street.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. one who buys and sells uncurrent money, and deals in exchanges relating to money.
  • noun. one who is agent in procuring insurance on vessels, or against fire.
  • noun. See Pawnbroker.
  • noun. one who buys and sells lands, and negotiates loans, etc., upon mortgage.
  • noun. one who acts as agent in buying and selling ships, procuring freight, etc.
  • noun. See Stockbroker.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A mediator between a buyer and seller.
  • noun. An agent involved in the exchange of messages or transactions.
  • verb. To act as a broker; to mediate in a sale or transaction.
  • adjective. comparative form of broke: more broke
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. act as a broker
  • noun. a businessman who buys or sells for another in exchange for a commission
  • Word Usage
    "_ -- A broker who signs a contract note _as broker_ on behalf of a principal, whether named or not, is not personally liable on the contract to the third party."
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