stockbrokern.
A broker who, for a commission, buys and sells stocks on behalf of clients.
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society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [noun] > dealer in stocks and shares > stock-broker
stockbroker1706
stock-jobber1833
brokera1860
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) at 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.
1757 W. Thompson Royal Navy-men's Advocate 46 Usurers, Stock-Brokers, and Merchants.
1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple I. i. 10 My father had told me that Mr. Handycock was his stock-broker.
1867 A. Trollope Last Chron. Barset I. xxxvii. 320 A man may be a stockbroker though he never sells any stock.
Compounds
stockbroker belt n. any prosperous residential area in the Home Counties favoured by stockbrokers or other affluent businessmen; also transferred of similar areas elsewhere; usually with the.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town or city > part of town or city > [noun] > row or street of buildings > types of
Park Lane1847
mean street1861
Millionaires' Row1894
stockbroker belt1960
Coronation Street1962
1960 Observer 25 Dec. 7/6 A stately great drag headed for the stockbrokers' belt.
1961 Spectator 14 Apr. 523 They live in the Sussex stockbroker-belt.
1968 Listener 22 Aug. 248/2 A moderately successful novelist..bored with his stockbroker-belt home.
1976 J. I. M. Stewart Young Pattullo ii. 24 She had been brought up in a stockbroker belt in the Home Counties.
1981 M. Jon Wallington Case iv. 24 It's a large house in..the stockbroker-belt, not far from Wilmslow.
Stockbroker Tudor n. (also Stockbroker's Tudor) a facetious term for a style of mock-Tudor architecture supposed to be favoured by such people.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > style of architecture > [noun] > mock-Tudor
Stockbroker Tudor1939
Tudor1939
Tudory1959
1939 O. Lancaster Homes Sweet Homes 70 (heading) Stockbrokers Tudor.
1940 R. Graves & A. Hodge Long Week-end xi. 180 In ‘Stockbroker's Tudor’ houses..ingenuity was displayed in olde-worlde disguise.
1958 J. Cannan And be Villain i. 6 Next best were these Stockbrokers' Tudor jobs built immediately before the first world war.
1959 Good Food Guide 98 Unlike Victorian Gothic, Stockbroker Tudor and such like varieties, this medieval mansion is perfect in every detail, except date.
1980 D. Clark Poacher's Bag iv. 81 It had been an old inn. Now it had sprouted wings in stockbroker Tudor.
Derivatives
ˈstockˌbrokerage n.
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society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [noun]
jobbing1606
stock-jobbing1692
stockbroking1792
stockholding1830
stockbrokerage1837
stockbrokery1874
agiotage1880
stock-jobbery1882
society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [noun] > dealer in stocks and shares > stock-broker > brokerage firm
stockbrokerage1837
wire house1900
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. iii. viii. 153 From the dens of Stock-brokerage.
1953 S. Kauffmann Philanderer ii. 26 It reminded her of her father (a minor officer of a stockbrokerage firm).
1972 Publishers Weekly 6 Mar. 24/1 Her husband..has his own stockbrokerage firm on Wall Street.
ˈstockˌbrokery n. the business of a stockbroker.
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society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [noun]
jobbing1606
stock-jobbing1692
stockbroking1792
stockholding1830
stockbrokerage1837
stockbrokery1874
agiotage1880
stock-jobbery1882
1874 M. Collins Transmigr. III. viii. 127 I was specially anxious to transfer stockbrokery to Algy.
ˈstockˌbroking n. and adj.
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society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [noun]
jobbing1606
stock-jobbing1692
stockbroking1792
stockholding1830
stockbrokerage1837
stockbrokery1874
agiotage1880
stock-jobbery1882
society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [adjective]
stock-jobbing1697
stockbroking1792
stock exchange1849
stock-market1930
1792 A. Young Trav. France 513 The banking, money~changing, and stock-broking writers, with Necker at their head.
1869 W. S. Gilbert Bab Ballads 65 With vulgar, coarse, stock-broking face.
1885 Law Rep.: Queen's Bench Div. 15 116 An account in respect of stockbroking transactions carried on between them.
1896 Daily News 9 Nov. 3/4 He was now learning stockbroking in the city.
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