broker

bro·ker  (brkr)

n.

1. One that acts as an agent for others, as in negotiating contracts, purchases, or sales in return for a fee or commission.

2. A stockbroker.

3. A power broker.

tr.v. bro·kered, bro·ker·ing, bro·kers

To arrange or manage as a broker: broker an agreement among opposing factions.

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[Middle English, from Anglo-Norman brocour, abrocour; akin to Spanish alboroque, ceremonial gift at conclusion of business deal, from Arabic al-barka, the blessing, colloquial variant of al-baraka : al-, the + baraka, blessing, divine favor (from braka, to bless; see brk in Semitic roots).]

Word History: Giving gifts to one's broker might be justifiable from an etymological point of view because the word broker may be connected through its Anglo-Norman source, brocour, abrocour, with Spanish alboroque, meaning "ceremony or ceremonial gift after the conclusion of a business deal." If this connection does exist, "business deal" is the notion shared by the Spanish and Anglo-Norman words because brocour referred to the middleman in transactions. The English word broker is first found in Middle English in 1355, several centuries before we find instances of its familiar compounds pawnbroker, first recorded in 1687, and stockbroker, first recorded in 1706.

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broker

Noun

1. an agent who buys or sells goods, securities, etc.: insurance broker

2. a person who deals in second-hand goods [Anglo-French brocour broacher]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	broker - a businessman who buys or sells for another in exchange for a commission agent, factor brokerage, brokerage firm, securities firm - a stock broker's business; charges a fee to act as intermediary between buyer and seller auctioneer - an agent who conducts an auction bourgeois, businessperson - a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise insurance agent, insurance broker, underwriter, general agent - an agent who sells insurance investment banker, underwriter - a banker who deals chiefly in underwriting new securities estate agent, house agent, land agent, real estate agent, real estate broker - a person who is authorized to act as an agent for the sale of land; "in England they call a real estate agent a land agent" ship broker - an agent for the ship owner; obtains cargo and may arrange for its loading or discharge stockbroker - an agent in the buying and selling of stocks and bonds syndic - one appointed to represent a city or university or corporation in business transactions travel agent - someone who sells or arranges trips or tours for customers
Verb	1.	broker - act as a broker commerce, commercialism, mercantilism - transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services) negotiate, talk terms, negociate - discuss the terms of an arrangement; "They negotiated the sale of the house"

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broker

noun dealer, marketer, agent, trader, supplier, merchant, entrepreneur, negotiator, chandler, mediator, intermediary, wholesaler, middleman, factor, purveyor, go-between, tradesman, merchandiser

Translations

broker [ˈbrəukəʳ] n → corredor(a) m/f de bolsa

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broker [ˈbrəukəʳ] n → courtier m

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broker [ˈbrəukəʳ] n → Makler(in) m(f)

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broker [ˈbrəukəʳ] n → agente m