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STOCKBROKER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does stockbroker mean?
• STOCKBROKER (noun)
The noun STOCKBROKER has 1 sense:
1. an agent in the buying and selling of stocks and bonds
Familiarity information: STOCKBROKER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An agent in the buying and selling of stocks and bonds
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("stockbroker" is a kind of...):
agent; broker; factor (a businessman who buys or sells for another in exchange for a commission)
Context examples
There was a pause after the stockbroker’s clerk had concluded his surprising experience.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
You might be a trader or stockbroker, or if you are a producer working in TV, you might be charged with the task of presenting financial trends clearly to the public.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
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