| 单词 | curbstone broker |
| 释义 | > as lemmascurbstone broker curbstone broker n. (also curbstone agent, curbstone operator) U.S. a broker, not a member of the stock exchange, who transacts business in the streets. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trader > agent or broker > [noun] broker1377 factor1432 entermeter1440 broggerc1460 chapman1570 institor1657 mackeler1682 agent1707 commission man1733 agenting1751 supercargo1782 commission agent1798 commission merchant1798 curbstone broker1848 managing agent1969 1848 W. Armstrong Stocks 7 This class comprehends..all those petty operators and non-descripts, who have neither a local habitation or scarcely, a name, that are dignified by the title of curb-stone brokers. 1860 in J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 3) 1861 Knickerbocker 57 635 All sorts of brokers, from the leading houses down to the curbstone ‘operator’. 1862 R. B. Kimball Undercurrents (1868) 321 It is rather a habit with the Curbstone operator when he gets severely winged, to go into the cigar business. 1884 Cent. Mag. Aug. 629/2 Peddling ‘privileges’ to small speculators through curb-stone agents. 1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 28 May 14/1 Both of these men are kerbstone brokers. < as lemmas |
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