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BROKER

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A businessman who buys or sells for another in exchange for a commission

Synonyms:

agent; broker; factor

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("broker" is a kind of...):

bourgeois; businessperson (a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "broker"):

auctioneer (an agent who conducts an auction)

general agent; insurance agent; insurance broker; underwriter (an agent who sells insurance)

investment banker; underwriter (a banker who deals chiefly in underwriting new securities)

estate agent; house agent; land agent; real estate agent; real estate broker (a person who is authorized to act as an agent for the sale of land)

ship broker (an agent for the ship owner; obtains cargo and may arrange for its loading or discharge)

stockbroker (an agent in the buying and selling of stocks and bonds)

syndic (one appointed to represent a city or university or corporation in business transactions)

travel agent (someone who sells or arranges trips or tours for customers)

Holonyms ("broker" is a member of...):

brokerage; brokerage firm; securities firm (a stock broker's business; charges a fee to act as intermediary between buyer and seller)

Derivation:

broker (act as a broker)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Act as a broker

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "broker" is one way to...):

negociate; negotiate; talk terms (discuss the terms of an arrangement)

Domain category:

commerce; commercialism; mercantilism (transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services))

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

Sam and Sue broker

Derivation:

broker (a businessman who buys or sells for another in exchange for a commission)

brokerage (place where a broker conducts his business)

brokerage (the business of a broker; charges a fee to arrange a contract between two parties)

brokerage (a stock broker's business; charges a fee to act as intermediary between buyer and seller)

Credits

 Context examples: 

The information provided to the investigators by the honest broker may incorporate linkage codes to permit information collation and/or subsequent inquiries (i.e., a re-identification code), however the information linking this re-identification code to the patient's identity must be retained by the honest broker and subsequent inquiries are conducted through the honest broker.

(Honest Broker, NCI Thesaurus)

Because she had the money there with which to pay off the brokers.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Let’s say you have a real estate broker, and she shows you a dream house that you bid on in late January.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Cornelius might be a broker, but we have found no scrip to correspond with these large payments.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I hope you won't think it selfish, Copperfield, if I mention that the broker carried off my little round table with the marble top, and Sophy's flower-pot and stand?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

We had a pleasant little meal together, during which Holmes would talk about nothing but violins, narrating with great exultation how he had purchased his own Stradivarius, which was worth at least five hundred guineas, at a Jew broker’s in Tottenham Court Road for fifty-five shillings.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Alternatively, you may talk to your real estate broker or banker about a mortgage or home improvement loan, or your lawyer if you are mentioned in a will and may get an inheritance.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The fact is, Copperfield, I was unable to repurchase them at the time of their seizure; in the first place, because the broker, having an idea that I wanted them, ran the price up to an extravagant extent; and, in the second place, because I—hadn't any money.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

You may be in confidential talks with your financial advisor over your investments or with your broker about a real estate matter you might be considering.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

It was arranged that the Micawbers should follow us, after effecting a sale of their goods to a broker; that Mr. Wickfield's affairs should be brought to a settlement, with all convenient speed, under the direction of Traddles; and that Agnes should also come to London, pending those arrangements.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)