broker Definition

broker
noun

1. A person employed to buy and sell stocks and shares; a stockbroker. See also broker-dealer.
2. A person who acts as an agent for other people in buying and selling goods or property.

Example: insurance broker
Example: commodity broker
3. A negotiator or middleman.

Thesaurus: agent, dealer, factor, handler, intermediary, middleman, negotiator.
4. A person who buys and sells secondhand goods; a pawnbroker.

Etymology: 14c as brocor, originally meaning ‘someone who broaches (eg a cask)': from Anglo-French brocour.