broker

Meanings

Adjective

• Comparative form or more of broke

Noun

• A mediator between a buyer and seller.
• A stockbroker.
• A mediator in general, one who liaises between two or more parties to attempt to achieve an outcome of some kind.
• An agent involved in the exchange of messages or transactions.

Verb

• To act as a broker; to mediate in a sale or transaction.
• To act as a broker in; to arrange or negotiate.

Related

Narrower meaning words

• playbroker
• power broker
• stockbroker
• pawnbroker
• en
• message broker
• object request broker
• storage resource broker
• tunnel broker

Origin

• From broke + -er.
• From Middle English broker, brokour, brocour, from Anglo-Norman brocour ("small trader") (compare also abroker), from Old Dutch *brokere ("one who determines the usages of trade, manager"), from broke, bruyck, breuck, from Proto-West Germanic *brūkī ("use, custom"), from Proto-Germanic *brūkiz ("use, custom"), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰruHg- ("to use, enjoy"), equivalent to brook + -er.
• Cognate with Middle Low German brukere ("a broker"), Danish bruger ("a broker, user, handler"), Swedish bruk ("use, custom, trade, business"), Old English broc ("use, profit, advantage, foredeal"). Compare also French brocanter ("to deal in second-hand goods") from the same Germanic source. More at brook.