broker








noun

  1. an agent who buys or sells for a principal on a commission basis without having title to the property.
  2. a person who functions as an intermediary between two or more parties in negotiating agreements, bargains, or the like.
  3. stockbroker.

verb (used with object)

  1. to act as a broker for: to broker the sale of a house.

verb (used without object)

  1. to act as a broker.

verb

  1. a simple past tense of break.
  2. Nonstandard. a past participle of break.
  3. Archaic. a past participle of break.

adjective

  1. without money; penniless.
  2. bankrupt.

noun

  1. Papermaking. paper unfit for sale; paper that is to be repulped.
  2. brokes, wool of poor quality taken from the neck and belly of sheep.
Idioms
  1. go broke,
    1. to become destitute of money or possessions.
    2. to go bankrupt: In that business people are forever going broke.
  2. go for broke, to exert oneself or employ one’s resources to the utmost.

noun

  1. an agent who, acting on behalf of a principal, buys or sells goods, securities, etc, in return for a commissioninsurance broker
  2. (formerly) short for stockbroker
  3. a dealer in second-hand goods

verb

  1. to act as a broker (in)

verb

  1. the past tense of break

adjective

  1. informal having no money; bankrupt
  2. go for broke slang to risk everything in a gambling or other venture
n.

late 14c., from Anglo-French brocour “small trader,” from abrokur “retailer of wine, tapster;” perhaps from Portuguese alborcar “barter,” but more likely from Old French brocheor, from brochier “to broach, tap, pierce (a keg),” from broche “pointed tool” (see broach (n.)), giving original sense of “wine dealer,” hence “retailer, middleman, agent.” In Middle English, used contemptuously of peddlers and pimps.

v.

1630s (implied in brokering), from broker (n.). Related: Brokered.

adj.

past tense and obsolete past participle of break (v.); extension to “insolvent” is first recorded 1716 (broken in this sense is attested from 1590s). Old English cognate broc meant, in addition to “that which breaks,” “affliction, misery.”

A financial agent or intermediary; a middleman.

see flat broke; go broke; go for (broke); if it ain’t broke don’t fix it. Also see under break.

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