Broker
['brəʊkə] or ['brokɚ]
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) One who transacts business for another; an agent.
(v. t.) An agent employed to effect bargains and contracts, as a middleman or negotiator, between other persons, for a compensation commonly called brokerage. He takes no possession, as broker, of the subject matter of the negotiation. He generally contracts in the names of those who employ him, and not in his own.
(v. t.) A dealer in money, notes, bills of exchange, etc.
(v. t.) A dealer in secondhand goods.
(v. t.) A pimp or procurer.
編輯:朗达
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Factor, agent, middleman, go-between.
道格拉斯校對
解釋/意思:
n. one employed to buy and sell for others: a second-hand dealer: a pander: a commissioner.—v.i. Broke to bargain negotiate: (Shak.) to act as a pander or go-between:—pr.p. brōk′ing; pa.p. brōked.—ns. Brok′erage Brok′age the business of a broker: the commission charged by a broker: a commission charged for transacting business for others; Brok′ery the business of a broker.—p.adj. Brok′ing doing business as a broker: practised by brokers.
整理:塔尼娅
例句/造句/用法:
- Then there was another man who had lost a thousand pounds, and went to the broker's next day to sell stock, that he might pay the debt. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- A broker desiring to buy shares of a certain stock will go to the part allotted to that stock and call out its name with the number of shares wished and the price he will pay. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- But the broker lived, and left the next day; and I have never seen him since, either. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- The commission charged for buying or selling is twelve and a half cents a share, so that on the usual order of one hundred shares, the broker receives twelve dollars and a half. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- On the American stock exchanges one broker may specialize in the shares of the Union Pacific Railroad, for instance, another in those of the United States Steel Corporation, and so on. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The broker was taken with such a fit of coughing he burst a blood-vessel, and the man who let the bromine out got away and never came back. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- The Stock-Broker's Clerk Shortly after my marriage I had bought a connection in the Paddington district. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- As soon as a price is agreed on, each broker--the buyer and the seller--makes a memorandum of the transaction, which is reported to the offices at once by telephone. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- One day while I was carrying on my work in Newark, a Wall Street broker came from the city and said he was tired of the 'Street,' and wanted to go into something real. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- You'll have the broker in, and be turned out; that's what'll happen to you. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Because she had the money there with which to pay off the brokers. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- On the morning when Edison casually looked in, the machines had stopped work, no one could find out what was the matter, and the brokers were much disturbed. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- It was intended more especially for importers and exchange brokers, and was furnished at a lower price than the indicator service. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- The brokers did a fine business, and so did many such purchasers as were sharp enough to quit purchasing before the final crash came. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- I understand that they have had brokers in the house? 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- Other brokers may offer the stock to him at a slightly higher price, or his bid may be accepted at once. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The bailiffs and brokers seized upon poor Raggles in Curzon Street, and the late fair tenant of that poor little mansion was in the meanwhile--where? 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
校對:克劳斯