Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A broker who deals in money.
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Examples
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The money-broker whom he employed, after having amused him with
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But this Glyco a money-broker, condemned his steward to fight with beasts; and what was that but to expose himself for another? where lay the servant's crime, who perhaps was oblig'd to do what he did: She rather deserv'd to be brain'd, than the bull that tossed her; but he that cannot come at the arse, thrashes at the pack-saddle: yet how could Glyco expect
The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter 20-66 Petronius Arbiter
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About seven years afterwards he established himself in London as a merchant and money-broker at Wonford
A Portrait of Old George Town Grace Dunlop Peter
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Then for another year I was a money-broker, selling currency, silver, and revenue stamps.
A Backward Glance at Eighty Murdock, Charles A 1921
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"You, master, may be a money-broker or a corn-merchant."
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction Various 1910
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"Ain't he a nervy old guy?" said a crisp little money-broker to Fouts.
The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation Harry Leon Wilson 1903
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This person was Mr. John King, then a money-broker in Goodman's Fields; but I was an entire stranger to the transaction which rendered him the temporary source of my husband's finances.
Memoirs of Mary Robinson Mary Elizabeth Robinson 1895
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They spoke of the funds -- of wool -- of the failure of a money-broker who had over-speculated in paper.
Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag Gustav Freytag 1855
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No one need ever know of it; and if the worst should befall, he had but to give Ehrenthal another mortgage on his property, and the money-broker would be equally satisfied.
Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag Gustav Freytag 1855
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A hard, grasping money-broker, with no ambition but the love of saving, no spirit beyond the thirst of gold, and no principle except that of fleecing every one who comes into his power.
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853
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