# broker
## English
### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈbɹəʊkə/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (General American) IPA: /ˈbɹoʊkɚ/
* Rhymes: -əʊkə(ɹ)

### Etymology 1

From broke +‎ -er.

#### Adjective

broker
* comparative form of broke: more broke

### Etymology 2

From Middle English broker, brokour, brocour, from Anglo-Norman brocour (“small trader”) (compare also abroker (“to act as a broker”)), from Old Dutch *brokere (“one who determines the usages of trade, manager”), from broke, bruyck, breuck (“use, usage, trade”), from Proto-West Germanic *brūkī (“use, custom”), from Proto-Germanic *brūkiz (“use, custom”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰruHg- (“to use, enjoy”), equivalent to brook +‎ -er.
Cognate with Middle Low German brukere (“a broker”), Danish bruger (“a broker, user, handler”), Swedish bruk (“use, custom, trade, business”), Old English broc (“use, profit, advantage, foredeal”). Compare also French brocanter (“to deal in second-hand goods”) from the same Germanic source. More at brook.

#### Noun

broker (plural brokers)
* A mediator between a buyer and seller.
    Hyponyms: playbroker, power broker, stockbroker, pawnbroker, floor broker, honest broker, money broker, piece broker, produce broker, sworn broker
** 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 119:It is singular how forcibly this passage in my narrative brings to my mind a picture which used to be, some years ago, at a broker's—that charnel-house of the comforts and graces of life. It had been taken out of its frame, and leant in a dark and dusty corner against a perpendicular armchair, whose rigid uprightness seemed suited only to the parlour of a dentist, repose being the last idea it suggested.
* A stockbroker.
* A mediator in general, one who liaises between two or more parties to attempt to achieve an outcome of some kind.
** 2014, Spencer C. Tucker, World War I: The Definitive Encyclopedia and Document Collection, →ISBN, page 244:The peace plan was representative of Benedict's inability to appear as a neutral broker of peace
* (computing) An agent involved in the exchange of messages or transactions.
    Hyponyms: message broker, object request broker, storage resource broker, tunnel broker

##### Derived terms

* body broker
* brokage
* brokerage
* broker-dealer
* brokeress
* brokerly
* brokership
* identity broker
* insurance broker
* rehab broker
* sharebroker
* shipbroker
* subbroker
* suit broker
* telebroker
* woolbroker

##### Translations

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#### Verb

broker (third-person singular simple present brokers, present participle brokering, simple past and past participle brokered)
* (intransitive) To act as a broker; to mediate in a sale or transaction.
    Synonym: broke
* (transitive) To act as a broker in; to arrange or negotiate.
** 2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Impressive work:When you first arrived on Menae, I had a hard time seeing how you flying off with one of our best generals would benefit our fight against the Reapers. However, as I now watch turian and krogan fighters working together to take down a Reaper destroyer, I must admit I am impressed. You've brokered an alliance that many thought impossible.
** 2018 July 16, Kate Maltby, Ava Etemadzadeh, “Harassment is parliament’s dirty cross-party secret. Is it about to change?”, in The Guardian‎:In Armando Iannucci’s sitcom The Thick of It, government spin doctor Malcolm Tucker brokers a peace with his opposition counterpart.
** 2024 January 24, Dyan Perry talks to Nick Brodrick, “The industry has given me so much”, in RAIL, number 1001, page 44:"To help Eurostar survive, we brokered an agreement with the ORR and Department for Transport to defer part of their charging regime, and that helped its liquidity... that was the only way that it could survive.

##### Derived terms

* unbrokered

##### Translations
## Italian
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English broker.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbrɔ.ker/, /ˈbro.ker/
* Rhymes: -ɔker, -oker
* Hyphenation: brò‧ker, bró‧ker

### Noun

broker m (invariable)
* broker (commercial mediator)

#### Derived terms

* brokeraggio

### References

* ↑ broker in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

## Polish
### Etymology

Borrowed from English broker.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbrɔ.kɛr/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔkɛr
* Syllabification: bro‧ker

### Noun

broker m pers
* (finance) stockbroker
    Synonym: makler

#### Derived terms

* brokerski

### Further reading

* broker in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* broker in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Romanian
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English broker.

### Noun

broker m (plural brokeri)
* broker

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Noun

broker m (plural brokers)
* Alternative spelling of bróker