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  • noun Plural form of broker.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of broker.

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Examples

  • Over the top rhetoric makes sense for the illiterati that the GOP courts to win their votes, but feeling the need to use it for the party power brokers is a disturbing new concept.

    Think Progress » ThinkFast: March 4, 2010 2010

  • The Apthorp's shift in brokers marks the most recent flash point in a fierce rivalry between New York City's two largest residential real-estate firms.

    Apthorp Sings: Goodbye, Dolly Craig Karmin 2010

  • The top executive of Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. said Friday that a persistent slump in trading activity, which has weighed on the business of exchanges and brokers, is nearing a trough.

    Nasdaq Profit Jumps 68%, Revenue Up Nathan Becker 2010

  • But sweetening the pot to win over top-dog brokers is a tough habit to break.

    Signing Bonuses Haunt Wall Street Aaron Lucchetti 2010

  • The Apthorp's shift in brokers marks the most recent flash point in a fierce rivalry between New York City's two largest residential real-estate firms.

    Apthorp Sings: Goodbye, Dolly Craig Karmin 2010

  • But his relationship to the president and the other key power brokers is important and will be a factor in decision making on foreign policy.

    Wonk Room » For More Tehran-ology 2009

  • Getting the consumer to realize that a free market system, with market solutions like catastrophic insurance and medical brokers, is the only way forward is the only way to break out of this mess.

    Capping a Bad Tax Break, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • Dex is strongly in favour of short-term brokers - who run their business better than others and who do more than is required of them - sharing in the underwriting profit of insurers.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

  • Someone once said that some financial people are called brokers because they are usually broker than you are.

    MORE WEALTH WITHOUT RISK CHARLES J. GIVENS 1995

  • Someone once said that some financial people are called brokers because they are usually broker than you are.

    MORE WEALTH WITHOUT RISK CHARLES J. GIVENS 1995

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