| 单词 | woolbroker |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswool-broker 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. ΘΚΠ 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. wool-broker wool-broker n. ΚΠ 1852 T. Baines Hist. Liverpool 756 (note) Mr. Thomas Southey, wool-broker, London. < as lemmas |
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