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ˈstock-ˌbroker, stockbroker
[stock n.1]
a. A broker who, for a commission, buys and sells stocks on behalf of clients.
1706Phillips (ed. Kersey) s.v. Broker, Stock-Brokers are such as buy and sell Shares in the joynt Stocks of a Company, or Corporation, for any Person that shall desire them. 1746W. Thompson R.N. Adv. (1757) 46 Usurers, Stock-Brokers, and Merchants. 1834Marryat P. Simple i, My father had told me that Mr. Handycock was his stock⁓broker. 1867Trollope Chron. Barset I. xxxvii. 320 A man may be a stockbroker though he never sells any stock.
b. stockbroker belt, any prosperous residential area in the Home Counties favoured by stockbrokers or other affluent businessmen; also transf. of similar areas elsewhere; usu. with the; similarly Stockbroker('s Tudor, a facetious term for a style of mock-Tudor architecture supposed to be favoured by such people.
1960[see belt n.1 5 a]. 1961Spectator 14 Apr. 523 They live in the Sussex stockbroker-belt. 1968Listener 22 Aug. 248/2 A moderately successful novelist..bored with his stockbroker-belt home. 1976J. I. M. Stewart Young Pattullo ii. 24 She had been brought up in a stockbroker belt in the Home Counties. 1981M. Jon Wallington Case iv. 24 It's a large house in..the stockbroker-belt, not far from Wilmslow.
1939O. Lancaster Homes Sweet Homes 70 (heading) Stockbrokers Tudor. 1940Graves & Hodge Long Week-End xi. 180 In ‘Stockbroker's Tudor’ houses..ingenuity was displayed in olde-worlde disguise. 1958J. Cannan And be a Villain i. 6 Next best were these Stockbrokers' Tudor jobs built immediately before the first world war. 1959Good Food Guide 98 Unlike Victorian Gothic, Stockbroker Tudor and such like varieties, this medieval mansion is perfect in every detail, except date. 1980D. Clark Poacher's Bag iv. 81 It had been an old inn. Now it had sprouted wings in stockbroker Tudor.
So ˈstock-ˌbrokerage, -ˌbrokery, the business of a stock-broker; ˈstock-ˌbroking vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1792A. Young Trav. France 513 The banking, money⁓changing, and stock-broking writers, with Necker at their head. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. I. iii. viii, From the dens of Stock-brokerage. 1869W. S. Gilbert Bab Ball., Disillusioned 29 With vulgar, coarse, stock-broking face. 1874M. Collins Transmigr. III. viii. 127, I was specially anxious to transfer stockbrokery to Algy. 1885Law Rep., 15 Q.B. Div. 116 An account in respect of stockbroking transactions carried on between them. 1896Daily News 9 Nov. 3/4 He was now learning stockbroking in the city. 1952S. Kauffmann Philanderer (1953) ii. 26 It reminded her of her father (a minor officer of a stockbrokerage firm). 1972Publishers Weekly 6 Mar. 24/1 Her husband..has his own stockbrokerage firm on Wall Street. |