(v. t.) One who transacts business for another; an agent.
(v. t.) An agent employed to effect bargains and contracts, as a middleman or negotiator, between other persons, for a compensation commonly called brokerage. He takes no possession, as broker, of the subject matter of the negotiation. He generally contracts in the names of those who employ him, and not in his own.
(v. t.) A dealer in money, notes, bills of exchange, etc.
(v. t.) A dealer in secondhand goods.
(v. t.) A pimp or procurer.
Example Sentences:
(1) Philip Shaw, chief economist at broker Investec, expects CPI to hit 5.1%, just shy of the 5.2% reached in September 2008, as the utility hikes alone add 0.4% to inflation.
(2) The big worry here is: even if the data broker reports aggregate data, a) it has this information on an individual level – how else might it use it?
(3) Access to besieged areas was a condition of a truce brokered earlier this year by the US and Russia , but the Syrian government has continued to ignore requests for aid deliveries, humanitarian officials say.
(4) But Ray Boulger of mortgage broker John Charcol says that because his parents are prepared to lend him another £40,000, not only can he look for a more expensive property, but he will also be able to apply for a much cheaper mortgage based on 80% LTV.
(5) Things only got worse in 1998 when Russia defaulted on its loans: the people of this area once again lost what little they had saved, and the oligarchs just got richer, in yet more deals that Russians perceived, with some justification, to have been brokered by the west.
(6) The parents should not be expected to be the "brokers" for various specialty services.
(7) The UN-brokered deal comes ahead of next month’s peace talks in Vienna, aimed at resolving the five-year crisis.
(8) Locally brokered ceasefires have taken effect elsewhere in Syria in recent months, notably in the Moadimeyah district of Damascus, which was also once a hub of opposition control.
(9) Combining the data from cutaneous malignant melanoma over both sexes and both registries the occupations with the highest incidence ratios (expressed as a percentage) were: airline pilots, incidence ratio (IR) = 273, (95% confidence limits 118-538); finance and insurance brokers IR = 245 (140-398); professional accountants IR = 208 (134-307); dentists IR = 207 (133-309); inspectors and supervisors in transport IR = 206 (133-304); pharmacists IR = 198 (115-318); professionals not elsewhere classified IR = 196 (155-243); judges IR = 196 (126-289); doctors IR = 188 (140-248); university teachers IR = 188 (110-302); and chemists IR = 188 (111-296).
(10) Less remarked on was the fact that a deadline for Iran to accept a UN-brokered deal passed on Thursday and raised the prospect of a fresh round of sanctions against Tehran.
(11) A lot of the problems hark back to these unscrupulous brokers who didn’t have any real interest in education.
(12) The role of the assertive community treatment worker begins with the identification and engagement of appropriate consumers; proceeds to the development and implementation of practical intervention plans; includes home visiting, in-the-field skill development, and resource brokering, with an emphasis on concrete problem solving; includes close collaboration with inpatient workers and families; and entails the assumption of ultimate professional responsibility for the consumers' well-being.
(13) And the timing was unfortunate – just as the last round of US-brokered peace talks was on the brink of collapse – even though the project had begun long before.
(14) Funding to private training colleges frozen and Medicare safety net changes shelved Read more “One thing that I think is important is the future of brokers and agents,” he told Guardian Australia.
(15) The relationship will take a similar form to that brokered by the Independent late last year to share back office functions to save millions in costs.
(16) In 2000, the two sides brokered a deal through the mediation of the UK and US governments and the human genome was put in the public domain.
(17) The dentist's role in the information society is described as an information broker between the dental science and the public, the patients.
(18) Eight out of 10 mortgage brokers say they have had to reject customers in the past six months, according to figures from the Intermediary Mortgage Lending Association.
(19) The war has dragged on despite efforts by a UN mediator to broker a peace deal.
(20) Blair then acted as an "honest broker" between the two to rekindle the deal, the court heard.
Scrivener
Definition:
(n.) A professional writer; one whose occupation is to draw contracts or prepare writings.
(n.) One whose business is to place money at interest; a broker.
(n.) A writing master.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Runners, for instance, need a high level of running economy, which comes from skill acquisition and putting in the miles," says Scrivener, "But they could effectively ease off the long runs and reduce the overall mileage by introducing Tabata training.
(2) It’s probably safer to reject this scheme,” says Scrivener.
(3) * In Chancery, having noted My Lady Dedlock's interest, Mr Tulkinghorn is enquiring about the identity of the scrivener.
(4) I have seven days.’” “My reaction at the time was: ‘You’re just talking crazy,’” Scriven, 22, told the Washington Post.
(5) Unjust debt, says Scrivener, is often “dictator debt” – money lent by rich countries to poor countries ruled by strongmen, who commonly used it to finance military ventures or vast follies.
(6) I don’t think he’s always there.” Scriven also told NBC News that Roof may have changed his plans after deciding the college campus was a harder target to access.
(7) A few years ago - Bartleby the Scrivener should have been living at that hour - I had the idea of recording the titles and authors of books as I read them.
(8) But I loved English, and I was very lucky in that I had inspirational English teachers, Miss Scriven and Mr Walker, and they liked us to learn poems by heart, which I found I loved doing."
(9) Tim Gore, Oxfam’s global head of policy for food and climate change says: “They are two separate issues and just merging the two, you could argue, is one way to let developed countries off the hook.” “It’s definitely an interesting proposal, but I think it’s fundamentally unjust,” says Alex Scrivener, a policy officer for the World Development Movement .
(10) Paul Scriven, the Liberal Democrat leader of Sheffield council, said: "Maybe in three or four years time, people will look back and say they were a little bit harsh to the Liberal Democrats."
(11) Shirley Scrivener Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire • If we’re going to abolish noxious two-word phrases, how about “throwing money”, from any politician refusing to fund a service properly (eg David Prior, Letters, 12 November ).
(12) From as far away as Edinburgh and Cornwall, by car, train and bus, the crowd had started marching from the Embankment at 11.30am – and tail-enders such as Graham Scrivener and Flora Wilson, both Hackney teachers, only reached the park gates at five, long after most marchers had started streaming home.
(13) He just said he was going to hurt a bunch of people” at the college of Charleston, Scriven told AP.
(14) Liberal Democrat spokesman Lord Scriven said Labour had a shameful record on midwifery when in government, overseeing a critical shortage of staff.
(15) Richard Scrivener, a former assistant strength and conditioning coach at Northampton Saints rugby club, says that while the benefits are clear, Tabatas are an addition, not a replacement, to a favoured sport or training method.
(16) David Scriven is contemplating a move from the home where he and his wife brought up six children.
(17) "With the financial sector shrouded in secrecy, it will be very hard to do anything more than estimate the true extent of involvement that UK financial and investment institutions have in fossil fuel projects in places such as Indonesia ," said Alex Scrivener, author of the WDM report.
(18) But Scriven and another friend, Joey Meek, were concerned enough to go out to Roof’s car and retrieve his .45-caliber handgun, hiding it in an air-conditioning vent of a mobile home until they all sobered up.
(19) Another leading QC, Anthony Scrivener, called Mr Carman "simply the best cross-examiner in the business".
(20) Melville's short story, "Bartleby the Scrivener," describing in telling detail the response of a sympathetic lawyer to profound and pervasive negativism in his legal scribe, is discussed as a literary analogy to the analyst-analysand dyad.