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brokerage

UK/ˈbɹəʊkəɹɪd͡ʒ/US/ˈbɹoʊkəɹɪd͡ʒ/
nounC1Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #10,263 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: brokerages

A brokerage is a firm that buys and sells on behalf of clients. Use a brokerage.

It earns from commission rather than from owning anything, which shapes what it advises. The word also means the fee itself rather than the firm.

Helen D Van Eaton, published in Leslie's Monthly Magazine · Public domain

Definitions of brokerage

  1. 1nounbrokerageA firm that buys and sells on behalf of clients.C1

    “The brokerage charged nothing to buy and a great deal to leave.”

brokerage is a firm.

Where it comes from

From broker + -age.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

brokerage in the wild

  • Edward Jones introduced the branch-office brokerage model in the United States and is a member of the Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC).

    Edward Jones Investments

  • Brokers may choose to enter into a buyer-brokerage agreement to be represented if the buyer is working with a broker other than the brokerage listing the property.

    Buyer brokerage

  • Farrow Limited., is an independently owned customs brokerage in North America.

    Farrow (customs brokerage)

  • Degiro (stylised as DEGIRO) is a Dutch online brokerage platform based in Amsterdam.

    Degiro

  • Degiro continues to operate as a separate brokerage brand within Flatexdegiro SE.

    Degiro

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

From Project Gutenberg, public domain. These sentences are from real books, shown to illustrate the word at work.

Related words

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