broker
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
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Etymology: 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.
Cognates
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.
Base: brook
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: brokers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: brokers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: brokering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: brokered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: brokered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A mediator between a buyer and seller.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
Liz Brent, broker at Go Brent in Maryland and Washington, DC, said she’s spent the past few months changing how she presents properties by emphasizing photographs, 3-D tours, and video vignettes for homes online.
gloss: A stockbroker.
pos: noun
gloss: A mediator in general, one who liaises between two or more parties to attempt to achieve an outcome of some kind.
pos: noun
examples: The peace plan was representative of Benedict's inability to appear as a neutral broker of peace
gloss: An agent involved in the exchange of messages or transactions.
pos: noun
gloss: To act as a broker; to mediate in a sale or transaction.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To act as a broker in; to bring about through brokering or negotiation; to arrange or negotiate.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
In Armando Iannucci’s sitcom The Thick of It, government spin doctor Malcolm Tucker brokers a peace with his opposition counterpart.
"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.
He would be well advised to be cautious, despite the fragile ceasefire that the US President Donald Trump and the Emir of Qatar brokered. Though President Trump reportedly told Israel not to kill Iran's supreme leader, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not rule it out.
Derived words: body broker
brokage
brokerage
broker-dealer
brokeress
brokerly
brokership
data broker
identity broker
insurance broker
marriage broker
rehab broker
sharebroker
shipbroker
subbroker
suit broker
telebroker
woolbroker
unbrokered
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