broker

See also: Broker and bróker

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbɹəʊkə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbɹoʊkɚ/
• Rhymes: -əʊkə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

From broke +‎ -er.

Adjective

broker

1. comparative form of broke: more broke

Etymology 2

From Middle English broker, brokour, brocour, from Anglo-Norman brocour (“small trader”) (compare also abroker (“to act as a broker”)), from Old Dutch *brokere (“one who determines the usages of trade, manager”), from broke, bruyck, breuck (“use, usage, trade”), from Proto-West Germanic *brūkī (“use, custom”), from Proto-Germanic *brūkiz (“use, custom”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰruHg- (“to use, enjoy”), equivalent to brook +‎ -er.

Cognates

Cognate with Middle Low German brukere (“a broker”), Danish bruger (“a broker, user, handler”), Swedish bruk (“use, custom, trade, business”), Old English broc (“use, profit, advantage, foredeal”). Compare also French brocanter (“to deal in second-hand goods”) from the same Germanic source. More at brook.

Noun

broker (plural brokers)

1. A mediator between a buyer and seller.

   Hyponyms: playbroker, power broker, stockbroker, pawnbroker, floor broker, honest broker, money broker, piece broker, produce broker, sworn broker

   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 119:

     It is singular how forcibly this passage in my narrative brings to my mind a picture which used to be, some years ago, at a broker's—that charnel-house of the comforts and graces of life. It had been taken out of its frame, and leant in a dark and dusty corner against a perpendicular armchair, whose rigid uprightness seemed suited only to the parlour of a dentist, repose being the last idea it suggested.

2. A stockbroker.
3. A mediator in general, one who liaises between two or more parties to attempt to achieve an outcome of some kind.
   • 2014, Spencer C. Tucker, World War I: The Definitive Encyclopedia and Document Collection, →ISBN, page 244:

     The peace plan was representative of Benedict's inability to appear as a neutral broker of peace

4. (computing) An agent involved in the exchange of messages or transactions.

   Hyponyms: message broker, object request broker, storage resource broker, tunnel broker

Derived terms

• body broker
• brokage
• brokerage
• broker-dealer
• brokeress
• brokerly
• brokership
• identity broker
• insurance broker
• sharebroker
• shipbroker
• subbroker
• suit broker
• telebroker
• woolbroker

 

Translations

mediator between a buyer and seller

• Albanian: sekser (sq) m, komisioner m
• Arabic: سِمْسَار m (simsār), وَسِيط m (wasīṭ), دَلَّال m (dallāl)

  Egyptian Arabic: سمسار m (samsār)

  Moroccan Arabic: سمسار m (samsār)

• Armenian: միջնորդ (hy) (miǰnord), բրոքեր (hy) (brokʻer), մակլեր (hy) (makler)
• Assamese: দালাল (dalal)
• Azerbaijani: dəllal, vasitəçi, komisyonçu
• Belarusian: пасярэ́днік m (pasjarédnik), бро́кер m (brókjer), ма́клер m (mákljer)
• Bulgarian: посре́дник (bg) m (posrédnik), бро́кер m (bróker)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 經紀人／经纪人 (zh) (jīngjìrén), 中間人／中间人 (zh) (zhōngjiānrén)

• Czech: makléř (cs) m
• Danish: mægler (da) c
• Dutch: tussenpersoon (nl) m, makelaar (nl) m
• Estonian: maakler, vahendaja
• Finnish: välittäjä (fi)
• French: courtier (fr) m, représentant (fr) m, démarcheur (fr) m
• Georgian: ბროკერი (broḳeri), მაკლერი (maḳleri)
• German: Vermittler (de) m, Makler (de) m
• Hebrew: בְּרוֹקֶר (he) m (bróker)
• Hindi: दलाल (hi) m (dalāl)
• Hungarian: alkusz (hu), bróker (hu), közvetítő (hu), ügynök (hu)
• Icelandic: miðlari (is) m
• Indonesian: makelar (id), pialang (id)
• Italian: intermediario (it) m
• Japanese: 仲立人 (なかだちにん, nakadachinin), ブローカー (ja) (burōka)
• Kazakh: делдал (deldal), маклер (makler)
• Korean: 중개인 (ko) (junggaein), 브로커 (beurokeo)
• Kyrgyz: далдал (ky) (daldal), маклер (makler)
• Latin: interpres m or f, cociō m, arillātor m
• Latvian: mākleris m, brokeris m
• Lithuanian: makleris m, brokeris m
• Macedonian: брокер m (broker), посредник m (posrednik)
• Malay: broker
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: megler m

• Ottoman Turkish: دلال (tellal), سمسار (simsar), سفسیر (sıfsır)
• Pashto: دلال (ps) m (dalãl)
• Persian: دلال (fa) (dallâl), کارگزار (fa) (kâr-gozâr), سمسار (fa) (semsâr)
• Polish: pośrednik (pl) m, makler (pl) m
• Portuguese: intermediário (pt) m, corretor (pt)
• Romanian: agent (ro) m, samsar (ro) m
• Russian: посре́дник (ru) m (posrédnik), бро́кер (ru) m (bróker), ма́клер (ru) m (mákler)
• Serbo-Croatian: broker (sh) m

  Cyrillic: по̀среднӣк m

  Roman: pòsrednīk (sh) m

• Slovak: maklér m
• Slovene: posrednik m
• Southern Altai: ортокчы (ortokčï)
• Spanish: corredor (es), intermediario (es) m, bróker (es) m
• Swahili: dalali (sw)
• Swedish: mäklare (sv) c
• Tagalog: koredor
• Tajik: даллол (dallol), восит (vosit), воситачӣ (vositači), маклер (makler), симсор (simsor)
• Tamil: தரகர் (ta) (tarakar)
• Thai: นายหน้า (th) (naai-nâa)
• Turkish: komisyoncu (tr), simsar (tr), tellal (tr)
• Turkmen: dellal
• Ukrainian: посере́дник m (poserédnyk), бро́кер m (bróker), ма́клер m (mákler)
• Urdu: دلال m (dalāl)
• Uzbek: dallol (uz), vositachi (uz), makler (uz)
• Vietnamese: người môi giới
• Yiddish: מעקלער m (mekler), מעקלערין f (meklerin), מעקלערקע f (meklerke)

stockbroker

• Danish: børsmægler c
• Dutch: beursmakelaar (nl), effectenmakelaar (nl)
• Finnish: arvopaperimeklari (fi)
• German: Broker (de) m, Börsenmakler (de) m, Börsenmaklerin (de) f
• Hungarian: tőzsdeügynök (hu), bróker (hu)
• Indonesian: pialang (id)
• Malay: broker
• Serbo-Croatian: burzovni posrednik m, burzovna posrednica f, burzovni mešetar m, burzovna mešetarka f
• Spanish: corredor de bolsa, agente de bolsa
• Swedish: börsmäklare c
• Turkish: kambiyo ajanı
• Ukrainian: маклер m (makler), брокер (broker)

computing: agent involved in the exchange of messages or transactions

• Finnish: välittäjä (fi)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Czech: zprostředkovatel m, makléř (cs) m
• Turkish: simsar (tr)

Verb

broker (third-person singular simple present brokers, present participle brokering, simple past and past participle brokered)

1. (intransitive) To act as a broker; to mediate in a sale or transaction.

   Synonym: broke

2. (transitive) To act as a broker in; to arrange or negotiate.
   • 2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Impressive work:

     When you first arrived on Menae, I had a hard time seeing how you flying off with one of our best generals would benefit our fight against the Reapers. However, as I now watch turian and krogan fighters working together to take down a Reaper destroyer, I must admit I am impressed. You've brokered an alliance that many thought impossible.

   • 2018 July 16, Kate Maltby, Ava Etemadzadeh, “Harassment is parliament’s dirty cross-party secret. Is it about to change?”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     In Armando Iannucci’s sitcom The Thick of It, government spin doctor Malcolm Tucker brokers a peace with his opposition counterpart.

   • 2024 January 24, Dyan Perry talks to Nick Brodrick, “The industry has given me so much”, in RAIL, number 1001, page 44:

     "To help Eurostar survive, we brokered an agreement with the ORR and Department for Transport to defer part of their charging regime, and that helped its liquidity... that was the only way that it could survive.

Derived terms

• unbrokered

 

Translations

to mediate in a sale or transaction

• Bulgarian: посреднича (bg) (posredniča)
• Dutch: bemiddelen (nl)
• French: courter (fr)
• Hungarian: közvetít (hu)
• Polish: pośredniczyć (pl)
• Portuguese: intermediar (pt)
• Swahili: udalali

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English broker.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbrɔ.ker/, /ˈbro.ker/
• Rhymes: -ɔker, -oker
• Hyphenation: brò‧ker, bró‧ker

Noun

broker m (invariable)

1. broker (commercial mediator)

Derived terms

• brokeraggio

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English broker.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbrɔ.kɛr/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɔkɛr
• Syllabification: bro‧ker

Noun

broker m pers

1. (finance) stockbroker

   Synonym: makler

Declension

Declension of broker

	singular	plural
nominative	broker	brokerzy/brokery (deprecative)
genitive	brokera	brokerów
dative	brokerowi	brokerom
accusative	brokera	brokerów
instrumental	brokerem	brokerami
locative	brokerze	brokerach
vocative	brokerze	brokerzy

Derived terms

adjective

• brokerski

 

Further reading

• broker in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• broker in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English broker.

Noun

broker m (plural brokeri)

1. broker

Declension

Declension of broker

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) broker	brokerul	(niște) brokeri	brokerii
genitive/dative	(unui) broker	brokerului	(unor) brokeri	brokerilor
vocative	brokerule		brokerilor

Spanish

Noun

broker m (plural brokers)

1. Alternative spelling of bróker