stockbroker

1. (often in plural) a store of goods in a shop, warehouse etc. Buy while stocks last!; The tools you require are in / out of stock (= available / not available).

2. a supply of something. We bought a large stock of food for the camping trip.

3. farm animals. He would like to purchase more (live) stock.

4. (often in plural) money lent to the government or to a business company at a fixed interest. government stock; He has $20,000 in stocks and shares.

5. liquid obtained by boiling meat, bones etc and used for making soup etc.

6. the handle of a whip, rifle etc.

adjective

common; usual. stock sizes of shoes.

verb

1. to keep a supply of for sale. Does this shop stock writing-paper?

2. to supply (a shop, farm etc) with goods, animals etc. He cannot afford to stock his farm.

ˈstockist noun

a person who stocks certain goods. These boots can be obtained from your local stockist.

stocks noun plural

1. the wooden framework upon which a ship is supported when being built, repaired etc.

2. formerly a wooden frame in which a criminal was fastened as a punishment.

ˈstockbroker noun

a person who buys and sells stocks and shares for others.

stock exchange

a place where stocks and shares are bought and sold.

stock market

a stock exchange, or the dealings on that.

ˈstockpile noun

a supply of goods or materials accumulated eg by a government in case of war or other emergency.

verb

to accumulate (a supply of this sort).

ˌstock-ˈstill adjective, adverb

motionless. He stood absolutely stock-still.

ˈstock-taking noun

a regular check of the goods in a shop, warehouse etc.

stock up

to accumulate a supply of (something). The boys were stocking up on/with chocolate and lemonade for their walk.

take stock

to form an opinion (about a situation etc). Before you decide, give yourself time to take stock (of the situation).

stockbroker

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The person to whom I have been speaking is my stockbroker."

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The right house was the residence of an opulent stockbroker who wore a heavy watch-chain and seemed fair game.

These, in any case, are the points that I would see to, were I a rich stockbroker in a riverside suburb.

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I know that the tune I am piping is a very mild one (although there are some terrific chapters coming presently), and must beg the good- natured reader to remember that we are only discoursing at present about a stockbroker's family in Russell Square, who are taking walks, or luncheon, or dinner, or talking and making love as people do in common life, and without a single passionate and wonderful incident to mark the progress of their loves.

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With intervals of Marshalsea lounging, and Mrs Bangham succession, his small second mother, aided by her trusty friend, got him into a warehouse, into a market garden, into the hop trade, into the law again, into an auctioneers, into a brewery, into a stockbroker's, into the law again, into a coach office, into a waggon office, into the law again, into a general dealer's, into a distillery, into the law again, into a wool house, into a dry goods house, into the Billingsgate trade, into the foreign fruit trade, and into the docks.

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In Brittany he had come across a painter whom nobody else had heard of, a queer fellow who had been a stockbroker and taken up painting at middle-age, and he was greatly influenced by his work.

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I met a young New York stockbroker, named Nesbitt, in London, and in common with all London, I suppose, by this time, I learnt the secret of all those anonymous contributions to the hospitals and other charitable causes during the last year."

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"To look at, one might think he was a successful stockbroker, and not one of the greatest painters of the age.

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You must have discovered a mine, or else become a stockbroker."

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Then she reinvested, and, owing to the good advice of her stockbrokers, became rather richer than she had been before.

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As for stockbrokers of the Wall Street species, they transact practically all their business by telephone.

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{agents de change = stockbrokers; napoleon = gold coin worth twenty francs}

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