(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.
Seller
Definition:
(n.) One who sells.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Seller reports are key to identifying bad buyers and ridding them from our marketplace," says eBay.
(2) We are going to see a sharp fall unless sellers hold the sector up by making aggressive offers.
(3) Over the past year, under the rule of Abdel Fatah al-Sisi , security forces have ousted street sellers from the core of the city centre and prominent locations such as Ramses Square, home to Cairo’s main train terminal.
(4) Miles Shipside, Rightmove director, said: "The number of new sellers is slightly up on the same period last year, though perhaps as a reflection of their urgency to sell, or to compensate for the distraction of the achievements served up by Team GB, they have dropped their asking prices more aggressively than summer sellers in previous years."
(5) April 2009 Newspaper seller Ian Tomlinson dies during G20 protests in London after being struck by police.
(6) The former tea seller who started his political career with a far right Hindu revivalist organisation promised "good times ahead".
(7) Property experts said a lack of new homes coming on to the market ahead of the general election squeezed prices upwards as sellers awaited the outcome of the vote.
(8) The IPCC held back from independently investigating the death, even after discovering witnesses had come forward to say they had seen Tomlinson attacked by a police officer, and photographs had emerged showing the newspaper seller lying at the feet of riot police.
(9) For the first time this year, the asking prices posted on the Rightmove website for homes in London fell by 0.5% in early June, compared with the month before, in part due to a rapid increase in sellers rushing to cash in on rising prices.
(10) Figures for Amazon are harder to obtain, but UK sellers believe Chinese sellers are leading the field in many product lines on its site, too.
(11) Turkey would be a risk too far when there are safe havens such as the US starting to offer a return on safe investments The nervous state of markets these days means there is generally either a surplus of buyers or a surplus of sellers; only rarely have we seen periods of calm with roughly equal numbers.
(12) She travelled to the UK three times in 2009, the year her second album, Fearless, became the biggest seller in the US.
(13) "It's both a protest and a safety measure," said one tobacco seller.
(14) The simplicity and reliability of the fluorescent-antibody technique and the occasional serious complications of prophylactic anti-rabies measures make the diagnostic use of Seller's method at best undesirable and at worst dangerous.
(15) "We are not sellers; we are distributors," he said.
(16) Aortography demonstrated acute dissecting aneurysm of the ascending, arch and descending aorta (DeBakey type I) as well as aortic valve regurgitation (Seller's II degree).
(17) Not only does this prevent sellers from evaluating buyers in the same way, but if a seller's rating is affected by detrimental comments, they are not allowed to know which buyer left these and are therefore unable to contest them.
(18) "New-seller asking prices are good lead indicators of the current mood of the market, and those who have put their property up for sale in the last month are obviously aware that potential buyers are thinner on the ground at this time of year and need to be tempted to act by cheaper prices."
(19) Some people believe that it just works but the reality is that the online buyer-seller relationship can falter at any one of a number of hurdles.
(20) Because another top seller is the relaunched, reinvented Furby , which has returned, smarter and more likely to claim a year-long role at the forefront of your child's nightmares than ever.