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单词 broker
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brokern.

Brit. /ˈbrəʊkə/, U.S. /ˈbroʊkər/
Forms: Middle English brocor, brokour, brocour(e, 1500s brooker, brokar, 1600s broaker, Middle English– broker. See also brogger n.
Etymology: Middle English brocor, -our, brokour, < Anglo-Norman brocour (also broggour) = Old Northern French brokeor ( < Latin type *broccātōrem), nominative brokiere ( < Latin *broccātor) of which Godefroy has one example explained by him as ‘celui qui vend du vin au broc’, as to the precise sense of which see below. The Central French equivalent was brocheor, brochière; and the word is the agent noun of the Old French verb brochier, Old Northern French brokier ( < Latin *broccāre) in the sense ‘to broach’ or ‘tap’ a cask. Brocheor, brokeor stand in precisely the same relation to the noun broche, broc, and the verb brochier, brokier, as tapster or rather the earlier tapper stand to the noun tap, and verb to tap in Germanic: the brocheor, brokeor, brokour, or broker, was lit. a tapster, who retailed wine ‘from the tap’, and hence, by extension, any retail-dealer, one who bought to sell over again, a second-hand dealer, or who bought for another, hence a jobber, middleman, agent, etc. Compare sense of Latin caupo. The Romanic verb broccare was evidently < brocco , brocca in the sense of ‘spike, piercing instrument’ ( < Latin broccus , brocca adjective: see broach n.1). But these nouns appear to have afterwards had their sense modified from the verb, so that in the Old French vendre à broke, or à broche, in modern French vendre à broc, the sense passed from ‘broach’, to ‘broaching, tapping’, and at length to ‘the quantity of wine drawn at a broaching or tapping’, and hence ‘the jug or vessel which held this’, as in modern French broc (from 5 to 10 litres). Anglo-Norman had also a derivative form abrocour, and there were Anglo-Latin words abrocator, abrocamentum; also brocarius ‘proxeneta, interpres et consiliarius contractuum’, and abrocarius. Brocarius appears to have been formed on the noun (broc(c)a, broc(c)us); abrocarius must have been formed on the apparent analogy of brocator, abrocator.
I. A retailer of commodities; a second-hand dealer.
1. A retailer; contemptuously, Pedlar, petty dealer, monger. (Now sunk in sense 2.)
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society > trade and finance > trader > [noun] > petty or sordid
broker1393
hucker14..
huckster1556
trucker1598
hucksterer1724
truckster1843
trade rat1876
grey marketeer1942
grey marketer1943
cowboy1972
1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. vii. 95 Ȝut am ich brocor of bakbytynge · and blame mennes ware.
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis i. 14 For gould his carcasse was sold by the broker Achilles.
1598 J. Marston Certaine Satyres in Metamorph. Pigmalions Image 30 But Broker of anothers wit.
1657 J. Angier Elegy in S. Purchas Pol. Flying Ins. Brokers in verse condemn it.
1730 E. Young Two Epist. to Pope i. 7 Millions of Wits, and Brokers in old Songs.
2. A dealer in second-hand furniture and apparel; a pawnbroker.
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society > trade and finance > trader > traders or dealers in specific articles > [noun] > in second-hand goods
upholder1333
upholster1411
broker1583
junkman1838
third-hand dealer1863
junker1889
junkie1902
society > trade and finance > financial dealings > moneylending > [noun] > one who lends money > one with whom pawn deposited > pawnbroker
fulker1568
broker1583
uncle1606
pawnbroker1658
lumberer1802
dolly-man1851
pawn1851
nunky1875
Shylock1930
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. v. 248 I haue lent lordes and ladyes my chaffare And ben her brocour after, and bouȝte it myself.]
1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. F5v I haue hard prisoners..declaime & crie out against brookers. For said they..if they would not haue receiued our stollen goods, we woulde neuer haue stollen them.
1600 S. Rowlands Letting of Humors Blood i. 47 Clad in the ruines of a Brokers shoppe.
1601 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor iii. ii. sig. F4v One of the deuils neere kinsmen, a Broker . View more context for this quotation
1611 S. Rowlands Knave of Hrts. in Singer Researches Hist. Playing Cards 257 Or brokers, for their buying things are stole.
1641 Rastell's Termes de la Ley (new ed.) f. 43v Broker..the word is now also appropriated to them amongst us that buy and sell old and broken apparell and household-stuffe.
1766 J. Entick Surv. London in New Hist. London IV. 69 Brokers, who deal in both new and old houshold goods.
1872 W. Black Strange Adventures Phaeton 15 An old landscape that has lain for years in a broker's shop.
II. One who acts as a middleman in bargains.
3.
a. ‘One employed as a middleman to transact business or negotiate bargains between different merchants or individuals’ (McCulloch). Formerly used more widely, including the senses of ‘jobber, agent, factor, commission-agent’.
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society > trade and finance > trader > agent or broker > [noun]
broker1377
factor1432
entermeter1440
broggerc1460
chapman1570
institor1657
mackeler1682
agent1707
commission man1733
agenting1751
supercargo1782
commission agent1798
commission merchant1798
curbstone broker1848
managing agent1969
society > trade and finance > trader > agent or broker > [noun] > middleman
broker1377
kiddier1551
huckster1574
jobber1647
middlemana1797
regrater1804
regrator1808
salesman-
society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > non-manual worker > businessman > [noun] > business agent
broker1377
officerc1390
factor1432
worker1560
commission man1733
gomashta1747
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. v. 130 Amonges Burgeyses haue I be dwellynge at Londoun, And gert bakbitinge be a brocoure [C. brocor] to blame mennes ware.
1410 Will of Robert Beche (Guildhall Libr. MS 9171/2) f. 189v John Houghton Brocour Artis Aurifabrorum.
1480 W. Caxton Chron. Eng. ccv. 186 An alyen that was callyd Arnold of spayne that was a brocour of london.
1495 Act 11 Hen. VII c. 8 [If] the seller hymself or by his broker or factour..bye the same godes.
1509 Will of George Draycot (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/16) f. 142 Haberdassher and broker.
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Fiii/1 A Broker, proxeneta.
1599 R. Fitch in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (new ed.) II. i. 260 There are in Pegu eight Brokers..which are bound to sell your goods at the price which they be woorth, and you giue them for their labour two in the hundred.
1622 G. de Malynes Consuetudo 202 The common saying is, That a craftie Merchant needeth no Broker.
1641 Rastell's Termes de la Ley (new ed.) f. 43v The true trade of a Broker..is to beat, contrive, make, and conclude Bargaines between Merchants and Tradesmen.
1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ vi. xiv. 24 By their profession they are for the most part Broakers.
1705 London Gaz. No. 4131/4 John Styles, Sworn-Broker [see 1849 at sense 3a].
1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World i. 60 He serv'd them for..a Broker, to bargain for them with the European Ships for Provisions.
1849 J. H. Freese Commerc. Class-bk. 19 Brokers ought to be sworn by the public authorities not to transact any business on their own account, under a heavy penalty; which is the case in..London, etc.
1858 Ld. St. Leonards Handy Bk. Prop. Law xxi. 166 Never allow the money..to be retained by brokers, agents, or solicitors.
b. ‘Brokers are divided into different classes; as bill brokers or exchange brokers, stock-brokers (see stockbroker n.), broker ship and insurance brokers, pawnbrokers (see pawnbroker n.)... The brokers who negotiate sales of produce between different merchants usually confine themselves to some one department or line of business’ (McCulloch), as cotton-broker, tea-broker, wool-broker, etc.
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society > trade and finance > trader > traders or dealers in specific articles > [noun] > in textiles, clothing, or yarns
mercerc1230
clothier1362
draper1362
woolman1390
yarn-chopper1429
line-draper1436
Welsh drapera1525
telerc1540
purple-seller1547
linen-draper1549
staplera1552
silkman1553
woollen-draper1554
wool-driver1555
woolster1577
linener1616
woolner1619
linen-man1631
ragman1649
rag merchant1665
slop-seller1665
bodice-seller1672
piece-broker1697
wool-stapler1709
cloth-man1723
Manchester-man1755
fleece-merchanta1774
rag dealer1777
man's mercer1789
keelman1821
man-mercer1837
cotton-broker1849
slopper1854
shoddyite1865
costumier1886
cotton-man1906
society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [noun] > dealer in stocks and shares > stock-broker
stockbroker1706
stock-jobber1833
brokera1860
1622 G. de Malynes Consuetudo 64 Guided..by ignorant Brokers of Exchanges.
1769 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) I. i. 14 A man, whose cares..have degraded the office of commander in chief into a broker of commissions.
1769 W. Draper in ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) I. ii. 21 The dignity..is depraved..into the base office of a commission broker.
1849 R. Cobden Speeches 46 The cotton brokers of Liverpool, and the cotton spinners of Manchester.
1852 J. R. McCulloch Dict. Commerce 198 Their charge as ship brokers is about 2 per cent. on the gross receipts. When they act as insurance brokers they charge 5 per cent. on the premium.
a1860 C. Fenn Eng. & For. Funds (1883) 127 The members of the Stock Exchange are called Jobbers and Brokers. The broker deals with the jobber for his principal, and is remunerated by commission.
1860 All Year Round 29 Sept. 582 Blacklegs..the betting brokers were formerly called.
4. A go-between or intermediary in love affairs; a hired match-maker, marriage-agent; also a procurer, pimp, bawd; a pander generally. Obsolete.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > match-making > [noun] > match-maker
broker1377
marriage-maker1591
proxenete1609
matcher1611
ring-carriera1616
matchmaker1638
match-broker1640
marriage broker1662
marriage-bawd1676
match-monger1680
flesh-broker1699
wife broker1700
black-sole1725
marriage-monger?1748
Blackfoot1808
blackleg1825
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. ii. 65 And now worth this Mede ymaried al to a mansed schrewe..Ac fauel was þe first þat fette hire out of boure, And as a brokour brouȝte hir, to be with fals enioigned.
1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 280 Brocours of love, that deceiven.
c1530 A. Barclay Egloges ii. sig. J So many wowers, bawdys and brokers..that chast penelope Coude skant amonge them preserue her chastyte.
1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida v. xi. B2 Pan. But here you, here you. Troy. Hence broker, lacky. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) i. ii. 41 Now (by my modesty) a goodly Broker . View more context for this quotation
1621 H. Ainsworth Annot. Five Bks. Moses & Bk. Psalmes Numbers xv. 29 The heart and the eyes are the spies of the body, and brokers to bring it into transgression.
a1651 D. Calderwood Hist. Kirk Scotl. (1843) II. 24 Danvill..left behind him a broker betwixt him and the queene, Monsieur Chatelat.
1694 R. L'Estrange Fables (1714) cxxviii. 145 This Praying Carpenter here would have made Mercury a Broker to his Knavery.
5.
a. A middleman, intermediary, or agent generally; an interpreter, messenger, commissioner.
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the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [noun] > intermediate agency > intermediate means > person as
dealerc1000
meanc1384
mediatorc1390
moyen1455
intermediator1522
broker1530
middlera1533
intercessor1554
mercury1602
intermedial1605
transactor1611
interdealer1613
intermeddler1630
intercommuner1638
middleman1648
second hand1655
inter-agent1728
intermediary1791
in-between1815
medium1817
intermediate1879
come-between1919
tolkach1955
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 201/2 Broker that speketh many languages, truchement [i.e. dragoman].
1576 G. Wapull Tyde taryeth no Man sig. B.i Thou helpe arte a broker, betweene man and man, Whereby much deceyte thou vsest now and than.
1577 R. Stanyhurst Hist. Irelande iii. 91/1 in R. Holinshed Chron. I Thomas forthwith sent his messengers..to his cousin the Lord Butler,..wherevpon, the Lorde Butler returned Thomas hys brokers with this letter.
1595 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 iv. i. 62 Naie you plaide the broker so ill for your selfe, That you shall giue me leaue to make my Choise as I thinke good.
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxvii. xv. 639 The brocher and broker both of the treason, had brought word.
a1604 M. Hanmer Chron. Ireland 196 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) These Nuntioes were so crafty, that they needed no Brokers.
1642 T. Taylor God's Judgem. i. i. xix. 61 As Truth got ever the upper hand..so the broakers and upholders of falshood came ever to the worse.
1864 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows (1886) 118 The brokers of treason in the North.
b. A legal agent, a proctor. Obsolete.
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society > law > legal profession > lawyer > [noun] > legal representative or agent > attorney
attorney-at-lawc1330
procuratorc1395
proctor?a1425
torney1490
writer1498
brokera1538
cognitor1880
a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 56 Procturys & brokarys of both lawys, wych rather trowbul menny causys then fynysch them justely are to many.
c. frequently with implied censure. Obsolete.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > defrauding or swindling > [noun] > of a company, etc. > one who
botcher?1518
broker?1518
jobber1739
union jobber1832
fraudster1975
?1518 A. Barclay tr. D. Mancinus Myrrour Good Maners sig. Hvi Be no toller, catchepoll, nor customer No broker nor botcher, no somner nor sergiaunt.
1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. xi. sig. Diiiv Two fals knaues nede no broker.
1586 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. I. 259 Flatterers, brokers, and such as are most wicked, carie away offices..and wastfully consume the publike treasure.
1606 T. Dekker Seuen Deadly Sinnes London vi. sig. F2 Brokers yt shaue poor men by most iewish interest.
a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) ii. i. 569 That Broker, that still breakes the pate of faith, That dayly breake-vow, he that winnes of all. View more context for this quotation
III. Someone authorized to sell property legally seized.
6. A person licensed to sell or appraise household furniture distrained for rent.
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society > trade and finance > trader > traders or dealers in specific articles > [noun] > in household goods
hardwareman1419
glass-man1597
hardware dealer1703
Chinaman1733
broker1818
Chinawoman1837
1818 Act 57 Geo. III xciii.
1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. I. 50 A broker's man's is not a life to be envied..people hate and scout 'em because they're the ministers of wretchedness, like, to poor people.
1852 J. R. McCulloch Dict. Commerce 198 Brokers, simply so called, in their character of appraisers and sellers of goods distrained for rent, are regulated by 57 Geo. III. c. 93.
1888 N.E.D. at Broker Mod. The landlord put in the brokers yesterday, and all his furniture is gone.

Compounds

broker-between n. = senses 3, 4.
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > pimping or procuring > procurer of either sex > pimp
putourc1390
panderc1450
mitchera1500
apple-squire?1536
squire of dames or ladies1590
apron-squire1593
bed-broker1594
pimp1600
pippin squire1600
petticoat-monger1605
smockster1608
underputter1608
broker-between1609
squire of the placket1611
squire1612
fleshmongera1616
cock bawd1632
whiskin1632
pimp-whiskin1638
bully1675
foot pimp1690
mutton-broker1694
pimp whisk1707
flash-man1789
panderer1826
bludger1856
whoremaster1864
mack1894
lover1904
jelly bean1905
procureur1910
P.I.1928
sweetback1929
sweet man1942
nookie-bookie1943
papasan1970
1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida iii. ii. 199 Let all constant men be Troylusses all false woemen Cressids, and all brokers betweene panders.
broker-woman n.
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > pimping or procuring > procurer of either sex > procuress
butcheressa1475
stew1552
bawdress1569
brokeress1582
pander1585
abbess1594
aunt1604
panderess1604
hackney womanc1616
bronstrops1617
procuress1638
provincialc1640
fruit-woman1673
flesh-broker1699
broker-woman1723
commode1725
coupleress1864
hack1864
procureuse1930
1723 London Gaz. No. 6217/4 Elizabeth Boden..Broker-woman.
broker-like adj.
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1607 G. Wilkins Miseries Enf. Marr. iii, in W. C. Hazlitt Dodsley's Sel. Coll. Old Eng. Plays (1874) IX. 512 What beards..gentlemenlike-beards, or brokerlike-beards?
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

brokerv.

Brit. /ˈbrəʊkə/, U.S. /ˈbroʊkər/
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: broker n.
Etymology: < broker n. Compare slightly earlier brokering n.
1. transitive. To act as a broker for; to arrange as a broker; to negotiate.
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society > trade and finance > brokerage > arrange or negotiate as a broker [verb (transitive)]
broker1638
job1701
1638 L. Roberts Merchants Mappe of Commerce cclx. 218 Oiles are commonly laden at Porcupin, and were found in my time to have these charges for custome..for sea custome at 9 dob. per liver, brokered at 1 den. per liver.
1768 Y. Z. Seasonable Let. on Late Treaty with Nizam Allee Kawn 19 If the recent report of a peace, for which he is to be brokered out of only fifteen lacks [sic] of rupees..shall prove a fact, the machination is too base to be thought of without horror.
1870 Defiance (Ohio) Democrat 5 Mar. Isn't there..some negro preacher, who has collected funds for church building and appropriated it for private use, and who ‘brokered’ his race into the army?
1901 Chicago Tribune 17 Sept. 13/1 The agents brokered the lines with non-board companies, thus violating the condition on which the cut was allowed.
1959 M. G. de Chazeau & A. E. Kahn Integration & Competition in Petroleum Industry xix. 509 We were not only..never out of crude, but we brokered crude to other refiners.
2000 Business Day (S. Afr.) 28 Jan. 14/2 The man who brokered the Bosnia settlement at Dayton, Ohio.
2. intransitive. To act as a broker. Usually with for.
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1728 D. Defoe Syst. Magick (new ed.) ii. Introd. 226 It is true these blackest of the Black-Art Men have a great many other things in their Practice, besides that of brokering for the Devil.
1816 Times 11 Oct. 3/1 He would..sit in a coffee-room at the west-end of the town, and offer to broker for seats in Parliament as easily as for cow-hides.
1925 N. Makeev & V. O'Hara Russia i. 24 The native Russian was satisfied with the less active rôle of brokering between the small dealers and the Hansa merchants.
2004 Newsweek (Electronic ed.) 15 Mar. Bacanovic brokered for both Martha and the Waksals.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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