BROKER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does broker mean? 

• BROKER (noun)
  The noun BROKER has 1 sense:

1. a businessman who buys or sells for another in exchange for a commission

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

• BROKER (verb)
  The verb BROKER has 1 sense:

1. act as a broker

  Familiarity information: BROKER used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BROKER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

agent; broker; factor

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)

• BROKER (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they broker    ... he / she / it brokers   
Past simple: brokered   
Past participle: brokered   
-ing form: brokering   

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)

 Context examples 

The present communication is penned within the personal range (I cannot call it the society) of an individual, in a state closely bordering on intoxication, employed by a broker.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I understand that they have had brokers in the house?

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

Confer with your broker as well.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The honest broker cannot be one of the investigators.

(Honest Broker, NCI Thesaurus)

I have already examined the old Stock Exchange lists, and I can find no one in 1883, either in the house or among the outside brokers, whose initials correspond with these.

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

Also, he resumed his trips to the pawn-broker down in Oakland.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

‘I thought you were the brokers,’ said she, ‘we have had some trouble with a tradesman.’

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

On December 22, landlords and brokers, and buyers and sellers of real estate will want to work with you—and you will be able to accord them easily.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

I thought that ‘J.H.N.’ were the initials of a broker, and that ‘C.P.R.’ may have been his client.

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

I have only noticed them from over the way, because if the broker saw me, bless you, he'd ask any price for them!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)