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/brˈoʊkərɪdʒ/ /brˈoʊkrɪdʒ/ Listen

Brokerage

noun

A stock broker's business; charges a fee to act as intermediary between buyer and seller. Synonyms: brokerage firm, securities firm.

The business of a broker; charges a fee to arrange a contract between two parties.

Place where a broker conducts his business. Synonym: brokerage house.

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"Brokerage" Quotes from Famous Books

... had formed a real estate and brokerage partnership, and we were making money at a phenomenal rate. The air was vibrating with the ring of the trowel and the hammer. Gardens and roadhouses had appeared in the pleasanter places out of town. Everywhere in the central part of the city ...

— Children of the Market Place • Edgar Lee Masters

... proprietors; (2) the floor space occupied and (3) the rental paid for the place in which the business was carried on. Obviously all the enterprises could not be measured by all three tests. For example, the amount of floor space occupied and monthly rental paid by a brokerage firm might not bear so close a relation to size as the number of employees, nor would rental alone be an index of size of a coal, wood and ice business, since cellars, which call for smaller rental than other space, are used. But each enterprise was covered by more than one of the measurements, ...

— The Negro at Work in New York City - A Study in Economic Progress • George Edmund Haynes

... among us ready to direct the charity of others. We have all met those virtuous persons who do good by proxy. But Paul had not. He had never come face to face with the charity broker—the man who stands between the needy and the giver, giving nothing himself, and living on his brokerage, sitting in a comfortable chair, with his feet on a Turkey carpet in his office on a main thoroughfare. Paul had met none of these, and the only organized charity of which he was cognizant was the great Russian Charity League, betrayed six ...

— The Sowers • Henry Seton Merriman

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