Stockbroker
['stɒkbrəʊkə] or ['stɑkbrokɚ]
Definition
(noun.) an agent in the buying and selling of stocks and bonds.
Checker: Millicent--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A broker who deals in stocks.
Typist: Zamenhof
Examples
- A slight snore was the only reply: the honest stockbroker was asleep, and so the rest of Joseph's story was lost for that day. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- But to return to the other business about Amelia: why shouldn't you marry higher than a stockbroker's daughter, George--that's what I want to know? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- But his godson was much too elated to mark the worthy stockbroker's depression, or the dreary eyes which the kind old gentleman cast upon him. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- O stockbrokers--bankrupts--used to it, you know, Rawdon replied, cutting a fly off the horse's ear. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- A small portion of the most useful articles of the plate had been bought by some young stockbrokers from the City. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
Checker: Mara