Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. The business of a broker.
- n. A fee or commission paid to a broker.
- n. A firm engaged in buying and selling stocks and bonds for clients.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. A business, firm, or company whose business is to act as a broker (e.g, stockbroker).
- n. The commission paid to a broker.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. The business or employment of a broker.
- n. The fee, reward, or commission, given or changed for transacting business as a broker.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The business or employment of a broker.
- n. The fee or commission given or charged for transacting business as a broker.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. place where a broker conducts his business
- n. a stock broker's business; charges a fee to act as intermediary between buyer and seller
- n. the business of a broker; charges a fee to arrange a contract between two parties
Etymologies
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Examples
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Yet more than 90% of individual investors maintain brokerage accounts and rely on the flawed advice of their "investment professionals."
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The charade continues every day in brokerage offices across the country.
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Morgan Stanley Chief Executive James Gorman told investors the company could delay plans to purchase part of the 49% stake in brokerage firm Morgan Stanley Smith Barney that it doesn't already own.
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The brokerage is not charged the full fund fees by the funds themselves in agreement that the brokerage will carry their fund as part of their XYZ retirement plan.
Social Security Privatization, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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Actual (real) Privatization costs would exceed $12b per year in brokerage fees alone.
The "Cost" of Privatization, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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Foreign companies are allowed a maximum one-third stake in Chinese brokerage firms.
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With the average cost of a home reaching historic highs, consumers paid roughly $61 billion in brokerage fees for residential real estate in 2004 as some 6.8 million homes changed hands.
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In college, I spent time doing some trading, learning tape watching, and hearing the lore of the market from retail traders in brokerage houses.
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I owe the deepest gratitude to Barnett Faroll, the owner of a grain brokerage house on the Chicago Board of Trade, who took me into his house, parented my high-school education, and made it possible also for my parents and younger brother to come in 1938 and so to escape the holocaust.
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We see some financial institutions offering one-year CD rates in excess of 3\%, when similar term brokerage CD rates are just under 2\% and FHLB borrowings are at 1. 3\%.
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