‘One employed as a middleman to transact business or negotiate bargains between different merchants or individuals’ (McCulloch). Formerly used more…

Business and Finance. An agent who buys and sells, or transacts other business, on behalf of another person or company, usually one based in a…

A person who is involved in something, esp. on another's behalf; an intermediary; an agent or broker.

An agent; a jobber, esp. a corrupt jobber of offices; a broker, n.

An agent in a commercial transaction; a negotiator, broker. Obsolete.

A factor or agent; a broker; a retailer, huckster, vendor. (Chiefly in Roman Law and Scots Law.)

A broker or intermediary in business transactions.

A person acting on behalf of another. In commercial use: a person or company that provides a particular service, typically one that involves…

= commission merchant n.

The business or process of acting as an agent (in various senses); the profession of an agent.

A representative of the ship's owner on board a merchant ship, responsible for overseeing the cargo and its sale. Formerly also: †an agent who…

†(a) = commission broker n. (a) (obsolete); (b) an agent who conducts business or trade for another party on the principle of commission (sense 7a)…

a person who conducts business or trade on behalf of another; an agent, a factor; cf. commission man n.

a broker, not a member of the stock exchange, who transacts business in the streets.

a person responsible for administering or managing an activity (esp. a sale) on behalf of another; (Insurance) a manager of an underwriting…