broke : Idioms & Phrases

• one who buys and sells notes and bills of exchange.

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• noun a financial specialist who trades for his own account and so acts both as a broker and principal
  

WordNet

• . See under Broker.

Webster 1913

• an operator in stocks (not a member of the Stock Exchange) who executes orders by running from office to office, or by transactions on the street. U.S.

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• noun someone in charge of a client's account for an advertising agency or brokerage or other service business
  customer's man; account executive; account representative; registered representative.
  

WordNet

• an agent who acts for merchants in the business of entering and clearing goods and vessels.

Webster 1913

• one who makes a business of discounting commercial paper; a bill broker.

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• one who buys and sells uncurrent money, and deals in exchanges relating to money.

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• noun an agent who sells insurance
  insurance agent; underwriter; general agent.
  

WordNet

• a broker or agent who effects insurance.
• one who is agent in procuring insurance on vessels, or against fire.

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• a person who for pay acts as agent between lovers, or as a go-between in a sexual intrigue. Shak.

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• noun someone who arranges (or tries to arrange) marriages for others
  matcher; matchmaker.
  

WordNet

• a broker who deals in different kinds of money; one who buys and sells bills of exchange; called also money changer.

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• . See Pawnbroker.

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• one who buys shreds and remnants of cloth to sell again.

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• noun a person who is important by virtue of the people or votes they control
  powerbroker.
  
  • a power broker who does you a favor will expect you to return it

WordNet

• noun a person who is authorized to act as an agent for the sale of land
  land agent; real estate agent; house agent; estate agent.
  
  • in England they call a real estate agent a land agent

WordNet

• one who buys and sells lands, and negotiates loans, etc., upon mortgage.

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• noun an agent for the ship owner; obtains cargo and may arrange for its loading or discharge
  

WordNet

• one who acts as agent in buying and selling ships, procuring freight, etc.
• a mercantile agent employed in buying and selling ships, procuring cargoes, etc., and generally in transacting the business of a ship or ships when in port.

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• . See Stockbroker.

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• etc. See under Arab, Broker, etc.

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• one who made a trade of obtaining the suits of petitioners at court. Obs.

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