Other forms: brokers, brokered, brokering
A broker is a person who arranges deals for other people. An insurance broker, a mortgage broker, broker a deal.
The broker never owns what is traded — that is the whole point, and it is what separates a broker from a dealer. As a verb it means to negotiate an agreement between others, as in broker a ceasefire. Note that the word once meant a small trader.
1nounbrokerA person who arranges deals for others.
“They used a broker to find the cheapest insurance for their car.”
2verbnegotiateTo negotiate an agreement between others.
“The United Nations helped to broker a peace deal between the two sides.”
broker is a middleman.
Anglo-Norman brocour means a small trader or middleman. The word once carried a whiff of the wine trade.
From broke + -er.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA