brokerage

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(BAC) was involved in assessing Merrill Lynch's fourth-quarter writedowns before the brokerage was acquired by the bank, The Financial Times reported, citing anonymous sources.

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  1. noun The business of a broker.
  2. noun A fee or commission paid to a broker.
  3. noun A firm engaged in buying and selling stocks and bonds for clients.

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  • These include the Smith Barney brokerage, which is merging into a joint venture with Morgan Stanley's brokerage, the CitiFinancial and CitiMortgage finance operations, the Primerica insurance unit, and the Nikko Cordial unit in Japan.
  • The money market account at my brokerage is a convenient place to store cash until I find a suitable investment opportunity. —  Fat Pitch Financials
  • Merrill's fourth-quarter results are not part of Bank of America's 2008 results because the brokerage was acquired Jan. 1, 2009. —  Los Angeles Business News - Local Los Angeles News | Los Angeles Business from bizjournals
  • "You think a brokerage should be a place you go to pay commissions for fair and unbiased advice, right?" he asked. —  linkfilter.net - fresh links
  • Among them is a company that sells businesses, or a business brokerage, that is seeing increased demand from older Thais who have been laid off as well as Westerners keen to move to a cheaper location to work and live. —  Bangkokpost.com : Breaking News
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  1. from broker + -age; substituted for earlier brokage.
 

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/ˈbroʊkərədʒ/
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