" broker "

[Noun]  | "bro*ker" | \ ˈbrō-kər \

1: someone who acts as an intermediary: such as

2: an agent who negotiates contracts of purchase and sale (as of real estate, commodities, or securities)

3: an agent who arranges marriages

Origin: 14th century ;

 Middle English brocour, bragger "broker, middleman," borrowed from Anglo-French abrocour, brocour, broggour (British Medieval Latin abrocātor, brocātor, broggātor), of uncertain origin;

  * Note : The hypothesis in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), first edition, that Middle English and Anglo-French brocour originally referred to a person broaching a cask, does not appear to be supportable. The word broc in "celui qui vend le vin au broc" ("one who sells wine by means of a broc"), the gloss of brocheor in Godefroy's Lexique de l'ancien français, refers to a pitcher (the conventional meaning of this word in modern French), not the tap on a cask. Godefroy's source for this noun is in any case unknown. Old French brochier means "to place on a spit (broche)," not "tap a cask." The noun broche is attested in Old French in the sense "wooden peg used to stop the hole made in a cask," hence "wooden tap" (robinet de bois), and in modern Walloon dialect mèt à broke means "to tap a cask" (compare mettre a broche "to tap a cask" in Anglo-French), but there is no corresponding verb or agent noun in medieval French. On the other hand, abrokur, brokur "broker, middleman" is well-attested in Anglo-French from ca. 1300 and Medieval Latin brocator, broggator, brocarius, brocagium, etc., from the late thirteenth century, with no allusion to opening wine barrels. The source of this noun is unclear, though its locus is England rather than the Continent. Französisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (vol. 15/1, p. 291) notes Liège dialect a broke "by retail (sale)" (from 1377) and abroquer "broker" in a thirteenth-century document from St. Omer in Artois, and concludes that Middle Dutch brocke "piece broken off (something larger)" is the etymon behind these words, but the English evidence is not touched on. The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology departs from the OED, adducing Old Occitan abrocador "broker" (also abrocadra, abrochador), attested from 1336 in Bordeaux, which the Dictionnaire de l'Occitan Médiéval regards as a vernacularization of the Latin word. (Bordeaux can be readily linked to England at that time on both commercial and political fronts.) Further adduced as a source is Spanish alboroque "refreshment taken on the conclusion of a transaction," presumably of Semitic origin (see: Federico Corriente, Dictionary of Arabic and Allied Loanwords: Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician and Kindred Dialects (Brill, 2008), pp. 60-61).;

[Noun]  | "honest broker" 

1: a neutral mediator

Origin: 1878 ;

[Noun]  | "power broker" 

1: a person (as in politics) able to exert strong influence through control of votes or individuals

Origin: 1961 ;

[Noun]  | "insurance broker" 

1: a person whose job is to provide people with insurance

[Verb]  | "broker" 

1: to function as a broker with regard to (something, such as an agreement or deal) : to arrange, settle, or control (something) as a broker

Origin:  1638 ;

 Derivative of {see: |broker:1|broker:1};

[Noun]  | "broker" 

[Noun]  | "honest broker"