Definitions for brokers

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brokers bro·ker

Spelling: [broh-ker]

IPA: /ˈbroʊ kər/

Brokers is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 121 anagrams from letters in brokers (bekorrs).

Definitions for brokers

noun

1. an agent who buys or sells for a principal on a commission basis without having title to the property.
2. a person who functions as an intermediary between two or more parties in negotiating agreements, bargains, or the like.
3. stockbroker.
4. Papermaking. paper unfit for sale; paper that is to be repulped.
5. brokes, wool of poor quality taken from the neck and belly of sheep.

verb

1. a simple past tense of break.
2. Nonstandard. a past participle of break.
3. Archaic. a past participle of break.

Idioms

1. go broke, to become destitute of money or possessions. to go bankrupt:
2. go for broke, to exert oneself or employ one's resources to the utmost.

adjective

1. without money; penniless.
2. bankrupt.

verb (used with object)

1. to act as a broker for:

verb (used without object)

1. to act as a broker.

Origin of brokers

1350-1400; Middle English broco(u)r Anglo-French broco(u)r, abrocour middleman, wine merchant; compare Old Provençal abrocador, perhaps based on Spanish alboroque gift or drink concluding a t

Examples for brokers

Kairkhwa also tried to broker a peace in 2001 between the Taliban and the Northern Alliance with Iranian help, but that failed.

Of this amount he had in his possession—in his broker's possession, that is—but two of the eighths.

Your contract is as good only as the reliability of your broker.

John Kerry wants to broker a deal to stop the violence between Israel and Hamas.

There's a broker I've known down-town—fellow by the name of Relpin.

You'll have the broker in, and be turned out; that's what'll happen to you.

Before he heads for the exits, Cantor can do something good for the country and broker a deal updating the Voting Rights Act.

The broker who sold the policy went so far as to say the doctors had been lying to me.

When you are safely out, you give your password to the smuggler who calls it in to the broker to release the funds.

His broker called for more margin; he could not respond and was sold out.