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STOCKBROKER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stockbroker mean? 

STOCKBROKER (noun)
  The noun STOCKBROKER has 1 sense:

1. an agent in the buying and selling of stocks and bondsplay

  Familiarity information: STOCKBROKER used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


STOCKBROKER (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

An agent in the buying and selling of stocks and bonds

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

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


 Context examples 


There was a pause after the stockbroker’s clerk had concluded his surprising experience.

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

You might be a trader or stockbroker, or if you are a producer working in TV, you might be charged with the task of presenting financial trends clearly to the public.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)



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