broker
Other forms: brokers; brokered; brokering
A broker is someone who buys or sells for someone else for a commission. You may go to a real estate company to get a broker to help you buy a house.
In Middle English broker meant "peddler or retailer." Nowadays a broker still sells things — but she's acting as an agent making deals for someone else and collecting a commission for all that work. Used as a verb, broker means to arrange a deal or negotiate. Working for an advisory firm, a broker may convince you to invest in a company — so the broker would broker a business deal.
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a businessman who buys or sells for another in exchange for a commissiontypes:auctioneeran agent who conducts an auctionestate agent, house agent, land agent, real estate agent, real estate brokera person who is authorized to act as an agent for the sale of landship brokeran agent for the ship owner; obtains cargo and may arrange for its loading or dischargestockbrokeran agent in the buying and selling of stocks and bondssyndicone appointed to represent a city or university or corporation in business transactionstravel agentsomeone who sells or arranges trips or tours for customerskiller beean investment banker who devises strategies to make a target company less attractive for takeovertype of:
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act as a broker
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