broker

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See also: Broker and bróker

English

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -əʊkə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

From broke +‎ -er.

Adjective

broker

  1. 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.

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.

Noun

English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia

broker (plural brokers)

  1. A mediator between a buyer and seller.
    • 1834, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Francesca Carrara, volume 2, 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.
  2. A stockbroker.
  3. 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
  4. (computing) An agent involved in the exchange of messages or transactions.
Hyponyms
mediator between a buyer and seller
computing: agent involved in the exchange of messages or transactions
Derived terms
Translations
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Verb

broker (third-person singular simple present brokers, present participle brokering, simple past and past participle brokered)

  1. (intransitive) To act as a broker; to mediate in a sale or transaction.
  2. (transitive) To act as a broker in; to arrange or negotiate.
    • 2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, via PC, →OCLC, 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 and Ava Etemadzadeh, “Harassment is parliament’s dirty cross-party secret. Is it about to change?”, in The Guardian‎[1]:
      In Armando Iannucci’s sitcom The Thick of It, government spin doctor Malcolm Tucker brokers a peace with his opposition counterpart.
Translations

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English broker.

Pronunciation

Noun

broker m (invariable)

  1. broker (commercial mediator)

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ broker in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pl

Etymology

Borrowed from English broker.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

broker m pers

  1. (finance) stockbroker
    Synonym: makler

Declension

Declension of broker
singular plural
nominative broker brokerzy/brokery (deprecative)
genitive brokera brokerów
dative brokerowi brokerom
accusative brokera brokerów
instrumental brokerem brokerami
locative brokerze brokerach
vocative brokerze brokerzy

Derived terms

adjective

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)

  1. broker

Declension

Declension of broker
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) broker brokerul (niște) brokeri brokerii
genitive/dative (unui) broker brokerului (unor) brokeri brokerilor
vocative brokerule brokerilor

Spanish

Noun

broker m (plural brokers)

  1. Alternative spelling of bróker
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