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Broker

Definition:

(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.