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broker - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

English

Adjective

broker

  • comparative form of broke: more broke

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
    • ✤ 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.1
    • ✤ 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.2
  • A stockbroker.
  • A mediator in general, one who liaises between two or more parties to attempt to achieve an outcome of some kind.
    • ✤ The peace plan was representative of Benedict’s inability to appear as a neutral broker of peace3
  • (computing) An agent involved in the exchange of messages or transactions.
    • ✤ Hyponyms: message broker, object request broker, storage resource broker, tunnel broker

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 bring about through brokering or negotiation; to arrange or negotiate.
    • ✤ 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.4
    • ✤ In Armando Iannucci’s sitcom The Thick of It, government spin doctor Malcolm Tucker brokers a peace with his opposition counterpart.5
    • ✤ “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.6
    • ✤ 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.7

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

From broke + -er.

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.

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Footnotes

  1. 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 119: ↩

  2. 2020 June 12, Anna Bahney, “The new rules of buying and selling a house in a coronavirus world”, in CNN Business ‎: ↩

  3. 2014, Spencer C. Tucker, World War I: The Definitive Encyclopedia and Document Collection, →ISBN, page 244: ↩

  4. 2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Impressive work: ↩

  5. 2018 July 16, Kate Maltby, Ava Etemadzadeh, “Harassment is parliament’s dirty cross-party secret. Is it about to change?”, in The Guardian ‎: ↩

  6. 2024 January 24, Dyan Perry talks to Nick Brodrick, “The industry has given me so much”, in RAIL, number 1001, page 44: ↩

  7. 2025 June 26, Kasra Naji, “When Iran’s supreme leader emerges from hiding he will find a very different nation”, in BBC ‎: ↩

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