单词 | stockbroker |
释义 | stockbrokern. A broker who, for a commission, buys and sells stocks on behalf of clients. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < |
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