brokers

Noun

broker (plural brokers)

1. A mediator between a buyer and seller.
   • It is singular how forcibly this passage in my narrative brings to my mind a picture which used to be, some years ago, at a broker's—that charnel-house of the comforts and graces of life. It had been taken out of its frame, and leant in a dark and dusty corner against a perpendicular armchair...1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 119
2. A stockbroker.
3. A mediator in general, one who liaises between two or more parties to attempt to achieve an outcome of some kind.
   • The peace plan was representative of Benedict's inability to appear as a neutral broker of peace2014, Spencer C. Tucker, World War I: The Definitive Encyclopedia and Document Collection, →ISBN, page 244
4. An agent involved in the exchange of messages or transactions.

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