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broker

adj
/ˈbɹəʊkə/UK/ˈbɹoʊkɚ/US

Etymology

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.

  1. derived from *bʰruHg-✻
  2. derived from *brūkiz✻
  3. derived from *brūkī✻
  4. derived from *brokere✻
  5. derived from brocour
  6. inherited from broker

Definitions

  1. comparative form of broke

    comparative form of broke: more broke

  2. A mediator between a buyer and seller.

    • 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.

  3. A stockbroker.

  4. ›+ 5 more definitions

    1. A mediator in general, one who liaises between two or more parties to attempt to achieve…

      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 peace

    2. An agent involved in the exchange of messages or transactions.

    3. To act as a broker

      To act as a broker; to mediate in a sale or transaction.

    4. To act as a broker in

      To act as a broker in; to bring about through brokering or negotiation; to arrange or negotiate.

      • In Armando Iannucci’s sitcom The Thick of It, government spin doctor Malcolm Tucker brokers a peace with his opposition counterpart.
      • "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.

    5. A surname.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at broker. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at broker. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at broker

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA