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brokerage|ˈbrəʊkərɪdʒ|
Also 7 -idge.
[f. prec. + -age.]
1. The action or professional service of a broker; the broker's trade. Also attrib.
1466Mann. & Househ. Exp. 361 Item [my master paid] for brokerage, ix. d. 1619J. Dyke Counterpoison (1620) 20 Egges of the same cockatrice, brats of the same hag, are steeple and temple brokerage. 1753Scots Mag. Sept. 440/1 The trade of the Jews..was usury, brokerage, and jobbing. 1827Scott Napoleon xxxviii, By brokerage and agiotage. 1875Poste Gaius ii. (ed. 2) 213 The acquisition of Obligations..by brokerage of an independent agent. 1885Law Times Rep. LI. 694/1 In ordinary brokerage transactions.
2. The commission or per-centage paid to a broker on the transactions negotiated by him.
1622Malynes Anc. Law-Merch. 196, 20 pro cent. with the Alcaualla, taken for Brokeridge to sell them. 1668Sedley Mulberry Gard. ii. ii. 1697W. Dampier Voy. (1729) I. 508 An 18th part profit, by way of Brokerage for every Bargain. 1753Hanway Trav. (1762) I. v. lxxi. 323 An exorbitant brokerage of one or more per cent. 1809R. Langford Introd. Trade 23 The brokerage on foreign bills bought and sold is 1-10th per cent. 1884Manch. Exam. 28 May 5/2 All brokerages and discounts credited to the company.
†3. The acting as a bawd or pimp. Obs. rare.
1645E. Pagitt Heresiogr. (1665) 75 That I speak not of Brokerage, of whores, and other filthiness, too too bad. |